you're essentially forced by the nature of video and the desire to compress to recognize features of images that exist in multiple frames and then encode based on them
Which is exactly why such methods should not be patentable. Do you really think the VP8 guys had no idea how to do that until they read the H.264 patent? Of course not; it's a strategy that's obvious to skilled engineers, and granting a monopoly to the first entity to file a patent creates huge market inefficiencies and reduced innovation.
things like android couldn't exist, because they wouldn't have a source of technology to copy.
What did Android "copy"? An interface with a grid of icons?
"What did Android "copy"? An interface with a grid of icons?"
In layman terms, yes. You might argue Android copied it from Apple who copied it from Win Mobile who copied it from Windows who copied it from Apple who bought it off Parc. But that would be annoying to read.
Which is exactly why such methods should not be patentable. Do you really think the VP8 guys had no idea how to do that until they read the H.264 patent? Of course not; it's a strategy that's obvious to skilled engineers, and granting a monopoly to the first entity to file a patent creates huge market inefficiencies and reduced innovation.
things like android couldn't exist, because they wouldn't have a source of technology to copy.
What did Android "copy"? An interface with a grid of icons?