US Patent Issued to ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING on Feb. 10 for "Method and apparatus for coding video data in transform-skip mode" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,728, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING Ltd. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Method and apparatus for coding video data in transform-skip mode" was invented by Mohammed Golam Sarwer (San Mateo, Calif.), Ru-Ling Liao (Beijing), Jiancong Luo (San Mateo, Calif.) and Yan Ye (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for video processing include: determining to skip a transform process for a prediction residual based on a maximum transform size of a prediction block; and signaling the maximum transform size in a sequence parameter set (SPS)."

The patent was filed on June 7, 2022, under...