US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on March 3 for "Multi-type tree depth extension for picture boundary handling" (Chinese, German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,214, issued on March 3, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Multi-type tree depth extension for picture boundary handling" was invented by Han Gao (Shenzhen, China), Zhijie Zhao (Shenzhen, China), Semih Esenlik (Munich), Anand Meher Kotra (Munich) and Jianle Chen (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides apparatuses and methods for splitting an image into coding units. An image is divided into coding tree units (CTUs) which are hierarchically partitioned. Hierarchical partitioning includes multi-type partitioning such as binary tree or quad tree splitting. For CTUs complete...