ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,606, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SigmaStar Technology Ltd. (Xiamen, China).
"Video encoder and video encoding method" was invented by Zhen Bao Huang (Shanghai), Qun Wang (Shanghai) and Shao Bo Zhang (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video coding method includes the following steps: performing a first optimization operation on a sub-coding block to select original pixels or reconstructed pixels of an adjacent block of the sub-coding block according to a base prediction mode to generate an intermediate prediction mode of the sub-coding block; performing a second optimization operation on the sub-coding block to determin...