ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,206, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Film grain synthesis signaling and implementation for video coding" was invented by Vadim Seregin (San Diego), Marta Karczewicz (San Diego) and Muhammed Zeyd Coban (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example devices and techniques are described. An example device includes one or more memories configured to store video data and one or more processors configured to receive, in a bitstream, one or more first messages each specifying at least one respective film grain characteristic applicable to first video data of the video data and each corresponding to a...