MPEG LA Bows VVC/H.266 Patent Pool With 11 Licensors
Eleven initial licensors populate MPEG LA’s patent pool for the next-generation H. 266 video codec, said the license authority Thursday. H.266, also called Versatile Video Coding, is trumpeted as having 50% more efficiency than the existing H.265 codec for 4K…
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video and ATSC 3.0 and is said to be optimized for resolutions up to 16K and for 360-degree omnidirectional video for augmented and virtual reality (see 1903140012). Licensors in MPEG LA’s one-stop pool are b-com, BBC, Digital Insights, FG Innovation, Hanwha Techwin, KPN, NHK, Orange, Siemens, Tagivan and Vidyo. Access Advance also bowed a one-stop H.266 patent pool in July and has 28 licensors.