US Patent Issued to V-NOVA INTERNATIONAL on Sept. 23 for "Methods, apparatuses, computer programs and computer-readable media for scalable image coding" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,617, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to V-NOVA INTERNATIONAL Ltd. (London).

"Methods, apparatuses, computer programs and computer-readable media for scalable image coding" was invented by Robert Johnson (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For a given image in a set of images, residual data is obtained and is useable by a decoder to reconstruct a first representation of the given image at a first level of quality using a second representation of the given image at the first level of quality. The second representation is based on a representation of the given image at a second, lower level of quality. Configuration data relating t...