US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Oct. 6 for "Block selection for fusion in video coding" (Taiwanese, American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,816, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Block selection for fusion in video coding" was invented by Jian-Liang Lin (Su'ao Township, Taiwan), Po-Han Lin (Taipei, Taiwan), Vadim Seregin (San Diego), Marta Karczewicz (San Diego), Yao-Jen Chang (San Diego) and Zhi Zhang (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of encoding or decoding video data includes selecting a group of blocks based on probing samples determined from pixels that are proximate to the blocks in the group of blocks and current probing samples determined from pixels that are proximate to a current block; fusing the blocks in the group of ...