ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,984, issued on July 7, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Video coding and decoding" was invented by Guillaume Laroche (Saint Aubin d'Aubigne, France) and Patrice Onno (Rennes, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of decoding a portion of an image is disclosed, the method comprising, determining a threshold from a header associated with the image portion, wherein a decoding criterion is based on said threshold; and decoding said image portion based on said criterion. An encoding method, and corresponding devices are also disclosed."
The patent was filed on April 14, 2023, under Application No. 18/857,141.
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