US Patent Issued to V-NOVA INTERNATIONAL on Aug. 11 for "Methods, bitstreams, apparatuses, computer programs and computer-readable media for using a configuration block" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,062, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to V-NOVA INTERNATIONAL Ltd. (London).

"Methods, bitstreams, apparatuses, computer programs and computer-readable media for using a configuration block" was invented by Simone Ferrara (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method (1200) is provided. A configuration block (1210) comprising a configuration value (1220) is obtained. The configuration block (1210) is useable to reconstruct a first representation of an image at a first level of quality in a tiered hierarchy having multiple levels of quality using a second representation of the image at the first level of quality. The second represent...