ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,058, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).
"Apparatus, a method and a computer program for video coding and decoding" was invented by Pekka Astola (Tampere, Finland), Jani Lainema (Tampere, Finland) and Ramin Ghaznavi Youvalari (Tampere, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising: receiving an image block unit of a frame, the image block unit comprising samples in color channels comprising at least one chrominance channel and one luminance channel (900); reconstructing samples of said luminance channel of the image block unit (902); determining a reference area for predicting sampl...