ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,063, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to V-NOVA INTERNATIONAL Ltd. (London).

"Modified upsampling for video coding technology" was invented by Guido Meardi (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first level encoded stream is received and decoded to derive a first set of residuals. A first output video comprising an output of a base decoder applied to a base level encoded stream is received. The first set of residuals is combined with the first output video to generate a second output video. The second output video is up-sampled to generate an up-sampled second output video. The up-sampling comprises adding a value derived from an el...