Japanese court overturns Red RAW video patent

Wasnt the patent pretty much "and then I dump raw sensor data to a JPEG2000 codec"?

Unless I’ve missed it; Lumix has nothing to do with this long standing patent battle. Could you elaborate on the supposed relationship?

....what? Lumix and Red cameras have almost no market overlap. Only one model series even comes close to Red's cheapest camera.

It's not the idea of RAW that's being patented, but rather components of "Red RAW" that includes things like compressing before debayering, as the other comment points out. I also remember hearing something about Red having a patent on directly recording to swappable SSDs or something ridiculous like that as well..

It is. What was patented was the compression:

“ The camera can be configured to transform blue and red image data in a manner that enhances the compressibility of the data. The data can then be compressed and stored in this form. This allows a user to reconstruct the red and blue data to obtain the original raw data for a modified version of the original raw data that is visually lossless when demosaiced. Additionally, the data can be processed in a manner in which the green image elements are demosaiced first and then the red and blue elements are reconstructed based on values of the demosaiced green image elements.”

> ELI5 of what "RAW video" actually is

Video with high bit count per pixel. A finished video is 8-bit per pixel, but RAW video contains 10 to 14 bits per pixel, often in a camera-specific LOG format which has very low contrast and saturation and looks washed out. All of this helps preserve much of the detail and allows creators to have more flexibility in post-processing.

I think the patent literally covers the idea of a camera that records raw video internally. (Still cameras supported raw for years before Red existed.)

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