ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,887, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).
"Image data encoding and decoding" was invented by Stephen Mark Keating (Basingstoke, Great Britain), Karl James Sharman (Basingstoke, Great Britain) and Magali Kimlee Miri Philippe (Basingstoke, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image encoding apparatus comprises a controller configured to select, from a set of prediction directions, a set of candidate prediction directions as a subset of the set of prediction directions, for a current image region of a current image in dependence upon one or more properties of a group of reference samples of the current i...