ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,746, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to V-NOVA INTERNATIONAL Ltd. (London).
"Entropy coding for signal enhancement coding" was invented by Guido Meardi (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method of encoding a video signal, the method comprising: receiving an input frame; processing the input frame to generate at least one set of residuals data, the residuals data enabling a decoder to reconstruct the input frame from a reference reconstructed frame; and, applying a run-length coding operation to the set of residuals data, wherein the run-length coding operation comprises generating a run-length encoded bytestre...