US Patent Issued to AXIS on June 23 for "Enhanced skip frame encoding associated with a hierarchical prediction pattern" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,030, issued on June 23, was assigned to AXIS AB (Lund, Sweden).

"Enhanced skip frame encoding associated with a hierarchical prediction pattern" was invented by Mattias Pettersson (Lund, Sweden) and Johan Palmaeus (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a device may encode a series of images of video data into an encoded video stream including key frames and delta frames. The delta frames may be arranged according to a hierarchical prediction pattern with multiple temporal layers and a predetermined structure. The device may obtain an instruction to encode a delta frame as a skip frame. The device may de...