Panasonic overturns Red's Raw video patent that stumped Apple, Sony, and Nikon
Japanese court overturns Red RAW video patent
Japan's patent court has invalidated a key Red patent on compressed Raw video, following a challenge by Panasonic. The patent, filed in 2008, was at the center of legal battles with Apple, Sony, and Nikon, which Nikon resolved by acquiring Red. The decision could eliminate license fees for formats like ProRes Raw, but its impact is unclear as many companies now offer Raw video.
The court determined that many of the claims made in the patent, first filed in the US in 2008, would have been obvious to someone skilled in the subject area and familiar with existing developments.
- dannyw
Thank god. The actual patent (roughly; I researched it myself, but a few years ago so memory fuzzy) involves compressing frames/video before debayering which makes the streams more easily compressible; instead of after debayering, and as part of a camera (internal RAW). Yeah.
- Wistar
In the past 15 years, I have purchased five Lumix cameras including the new L10 (which I have yet to receive). I like their cameras a lot. The dedication to pursue this battle is another reason I am certain to buy more.
- decimalenough
Can somebody give a ELI5 of what "RAW video" actually is? I was always under the impression that it's just a dump of the "raw" uncompressed and uncorrected data coming from the sensors, meaning it's hardware dependent and unstandardized, and Wikipedia seems to agree: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_image_format
So what exactly is patentable here? Or is this the bone of contention here?