US Patent Issued to Canon on Oct. 6 for "Method, apparatus and system for encoding and decoding a transformed block of video samples" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,826, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Method, apparatus and system for encoding and decoding a transformed block of video samples" was invented by Christopher James Rosewarne (Concord West, Australia) and Andrew James Dorrell (Glenbrook, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of decoding a coding unit in an image frame from a bitstream. The method comprises determining a size of the coding unit from the bitstream; and dividing the image frame into a plurality of equally sized processing regions, each of the equally sized processing regions being a block processed during a single stage of a p...