US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on June 30 for "Encoding strategies for adaptive switching of color spaces, color sampling rates and/or bit depths" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,836, issued on June 30, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Encoding strategies for adaptive switching of color spaces, color sampling rates and/or bit depths" was invented by Bin Li (Beijing), Jizheng Xu (Beijing) and Feng Wu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Innovations in adaptive encoding for units of a video sequence can improve coding efficiency. For example, some of the innovations relate to encoding that includes adaptive switching of color spaces between units within a video sequence. Other innovations relate encoding that includes adaptive switching of color sampling rates between uni...