ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,316, issued on April 7, was assigned to HULU LLC (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Reuse of block tree pattern in video compression" was invented by Wenhao Zhang (Beijing), Deliang Fu (Beijing), Min Gao (Beijing), Juncheng Ma (Beijing) and Chen Liu (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a method transcodes a first location from a spatial region. The first location is associated with a first pattern defining a structure of splitting a location into smaller shapes. A bit string of bits is included for the first pattern in an encoded bitstream. The method determines the first location in the spatial region when the first pa...