ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,686, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Scaling list parameter-based video or image coding" was invented by Seethal Paluri (Seoul, South Korea) and Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the disclosure of the present document, scaling list data and scaling list-related information may be hierarchically signaled, thereby enabling a reduction in data volume to be signaled for video/image coding and an increase in coding efficiency."

The patent was filed on Sept. 4, 2024, under Application No. 18/824,053.

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