ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,074, issued on April 21, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Video coding and decoding" was invented by Guillaume Laroche (Saint Aubin d'Aubigne, France), Christophe Gisquet (Acigne, France), Patrice Onno (Rennes, France) and Jonathan Taquet (Talensac, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to signalling affine mode in an encoded video stream; in particular determining a list of merge candidates corresponding to blocks neighbouring a current block; and signalling affine mode for said current block; wherein signalling said affine mode comprises decoding a context encoded flag from the data stream, and wherein th...