US Patent Issued to V-NOVA INTERNATIONAL on June 24 for "Integrating an encoder for hierarchical video coding" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,983, issued on June 24, was assigned to V-NOVA INTERNATIONAL Ltd. (London).

"Integrating an encoder for hierarchical video coding" was invented by Fabio Murra (London) and Robert Johnson (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video encoder is provided that has: one or more encoder plug-ins that provide a wrapper for one or more respective base codecs to implement a base encoding layer, each wrapper implementing an interface for data exchange with a corresponding base codec, the base encoding layer being configured to encode and decode a video signal; an enhancement encoder to implement an enhancement encoding layer, the enhancement...