ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,082, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Dolby Video Compression LLC (Wilmington, Del.).
"Picture coding supporting block merging and skip mode" was invented by Heiko Schwarz (Berlin), Heiner Kirchhoffer (Berlin), Philipp Helle (Berlin), Simon Oudin (Berlin), Jan Stegemann (Berlin), Benjamin Bross (Berlin), Detlev Marpe (Berlin) and Thomas Wiegand (Berlin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coding efficiency increase is achieved by using a common signalization within the bitstream with regard to activation of merging and activation of the skip mode. One possible state of one or more syntax elements within the bitstream may signalize for ...