ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,071, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Parallel processing for video coding" was invented by Shengqi Yang (Carlsbad, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video coder includes a plurality of processing elements configured to code video data in parallel. The video coder may receive video data, determine a frequency at which the plurality of processing elements are to code the video data based on a largest coding unit (LCU) size, and a tile size, indicate the frequency to the plurality of processing elements, and code the video data at the frequency."
The patent was filed on Nov. 27, 2023, under Applicat...