ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,030, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Dolby Video Compression LLC (San Francisco).
"Effective wedgelet partition coding" was invented by Philipp Merkle (Berlin), Christian Bartnik (Berlin), Haricharan Lakshman (Berlin), Detlev Marpe (Berlin), Karsten Mueller (Berlin), Thomas Wiegand (Berlin) and Gerhard Tech (Berlin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Wedgelet separation lines of neighboring blocks are predicted from each other by aligning the wedgelet separation lines of such neighboring blocks to each other, thereby reducing the side information coding rate that may be used."
The patent was filed on April 22, 2025, under Application ...