I might be incorrect here, but I thought that AVIF is using same/similar container format as MP4/HEIF. Is there clarity on patent situation for container formats?
Wikipedia article briefly mentions patents for HEIF and it does not inspire much confidence there.
HEIF has a ton of issues when you use it with H.256 (HEIC).
But basic usage of it is almost identical to any MP4 video file, it just has a few bits of metadata saying "I'm an image". That's too trivial to be patentable.
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I might be incorrect here, but I thought that AVIF is using same/similar container format as MP4/HEIF. Is there clarity on patent situation for container formats?
Wikipedia article briefly mentions patents for HEIF and it does not inspire much confidence there.
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Image_File_F...
HEIF has a ton of issues when you use it with H.256 (HEIC).
But basic usage of it is almost identical to any MP4 video file, it just has a few bits of metadata saying "I'm an image". That's too trivial to be patentable.