US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on March 3 for "Data encoding and decoding" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,232, issued on March 3, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Data encoding and decoding" was invented by Adrian Richard Browne (Basingstoke, Great Britain), Stephen Mark Keating (Basingstoke, Great Britain) and Karl James Sharman (Basingstoke, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data encoding method comprises generating one or more encoding parameters; communicating the one or more encoding parameters for use by a decoding process; and encoding data items representing image data samples of an image by generating residual data indicative of a difference between an image data sample and a predicted version of that imag...