The Federal Circuit recently held in RecogniCorp, LLC v. Nintendo Co., Ltd. (Fed. Cir. 2016) that claims directed to encoding and decoding image data were not patent-eligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101.
Distributed video coding (DVC) represents a paradigm shift in video compression, wherein the computational burden is transferred from the encoder to the decoder. This approach exploits the inherent ...