ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,811, issued on June 30, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).
"Video encoder and corresponding method" was invented by Han Gao (Shenzhen, China), Semih Esenlik (Munich), Jianle Chen (San Diego), Zhijie Zhao (Shenzhen, China), Anand Meher Kotra (Munich) and Biao Wang (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to methods and devices to be employed for encoding and decoding of image or video signal. They include determination of whether or not the size of a current block is larger than a minimum allowed quadtree leaf node size. If the size of the current block is not larger ...