US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on May 19 for "Robust encoding/decoding of escape-coded pixels in palette mode" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,458, issued on May 19, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Robust encoding/decoding of escape-coded pixels in palette mode" was invented by Bin Li (Beijing) and Jizheng Xu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Approaches to robust encoding and decoding of escape-coded pixels in a palette mode are described. For example, sample values of escape-coded pixels in palette mode are encoded/decoded using a binarization process that depends on a constant value of quantization parameter ("QP") for the sample values. Or, as another example, sample values of escape-coded pixels in palette mode are encoded/deco...