ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,702, issued on May 6, was assigned to V-NOVA INTERNATIONAL Ltd. (London).
"Quantization of residuals in video coding" was invented by Guido Meardi (London), Simone Ferrara (London) and Lorenzo Ciccarelli (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of decoding an encoded stream into a reconstructed output signal is provided, the method comprising: receiving a first output signal decoded from a first base encoded stream according to a first codec; receiving a level encoded stream; decoding the level encoded stream to obtain a set of residuals; and, combining the set of residuals with the first output signal to generate a reconstruc...