US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on May 26 for "Efficient transform signaling for small blocks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,290, issued on May 26, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Efficient transform signaling for small blocks" was invented by Jin Zhao (Mountian View, Calif.) and In Suk Chong (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A size of a transform block is identified. A transform type for the transform block is identified. The transform type includes a horizontal transform type and a vertical transform type. Identifying the transform type includes determining whether the size of the transform block is below a predefined block size; and, in response to determining that the size is below the predefined block size, sele...