ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,839, issued on May 13, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Scanning orders for non-transform coding" was invented by Xiulian Peng (Beijing) and Jizheng Xu (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Non-transform blocks of video content may be coded by selectively changing a scanning order. In some implementations, an encoder or decoder may perform a scanning process on a block according to a scanning order. When the block has not been transformed, the encoder or decoder may selectively change the scanning order to a different order. For example, if the block is associated with a particular type of predi...