ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,066, issued on March 25, was assigned to V-NOVA INTERNATIONAL Ltd. (London).
"Low complexity enhancement video coding" was invented by Guido Meardi (London), Simone Ferrara (London), Lorenzo Ciccarelli (London), Ivan Damnjanovic (London), Richard Clucas (London) and Sam Littlewood (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of a low complexity enhancement video coding are described. Encoding and decoding methods are described, as well as corresponding encoders and decoders. The enhancement coding may operate on top of a base layer, which may provide base encoding and decoding. Spatial scaling may be applied across different laye...