US Patent Issued to DOLBY VIDEO COMPRESSION on Feb. 24 for "Region merging and coding parameter reuse via merging" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,715, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to DOLBY VIDEO COMPRESSION LLC (San Francisco).

"Region merging and coding parameter reuse via merging" was invented by Philipp Helle (Berlin), Simon Oudin (Berlin), Martin Winken (Berlin), Detlev Marpe (Berlin) and Thomas Wiegand (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A favorable merging or grouping of simply connected regions into which the array of information samples is sub-divided, is coded with a reduced amount of data. To this end, a predetermined relative locational relationship is defined enabling an identifying, for a predetermined simply connected region, of simply connected regions wit...