ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,985, issued on July 7, was assigned to City University of Hong Kong (Kowloon, Hong Kong).

"Processing for encoding screen content video using bit allocation" was invented by Sam Tak Wu Kwong (Kowloon, Hong Kong), Yi Chen (Kowloon, Hong Kong) and Shiqi Wang (Kowloon, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for processing a screen content video. The screen content video includes a plurality of frames each including a plurality of coding tree units and a plurality of coding units in each of the coding tree units. The method includes performing a coding-tree-unit-based analysis operation on the screen content video to determine ...