ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,971, issued on July 7, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Sub-partition intra prediction" was invented by Adarsh Krishnan Ramasubramonian (Irvine, Calif.), Geert Van Der Auwera (San Diego), Luong Pham Van (San Diego) and Marta Karczewicz (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for improving intra-subpartitioning (ISP) mode for splitting coding blocks into sub-blocks. In some cases, whether ISP mode is enabled for a coding block is based on size constraints pertaining to data units (e.g., VPDUs, transform blocks, among others). For instance, based on a size constraint related to a VPDU, the ISP mode ...