US Patent Issued to Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software on June 30 for "Methods and apparatus of encoding/decoding video picture partitioned in CTU grids" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,810, issued on June 30, was assigned to Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Methods and apparatus of encoding/decoding video picture partitioned in CTU grids" was invented by Fabrice Leleannec (Beijing) and Pierre Andrivon (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for encoding a video picture into a bitstream of encoded video picture data, includes: encoding into the bitstream a default width and a default height of coding-tree unit of a grid of coding-tree units splitting the video picture into picture areas, each coding-tree unit being a picture area subdivided according to a coding tree; encoding, into the b...