US Patent Issued to CANON on Oct. 20 for "Method, apparatus and system for encoding and decoding a block of video samples" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,851, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Method, apparatus and system for encoding and decoding a block of video samples" was invented by Christopher James Rosewarne (Concord West, Australia) and Iftekhar Ahmed (Lane Cove North, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of decoding coding units of a coding tree for an image frame from a video bitstream comprising splitting a region of the coding tree into a plurality of coding blocks, each of the coding blocks including a prediction block. Determining matrix intra prediction flags for the prediction block of each of the coding blocks, the determination bas...