US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Oct. 27 for "Robust encoding/decoding of escape-coded pixels in palette mode" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,157, issued on Oct. 27, 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/de...