US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on April 21 for "Systems and methods for chroma mode coding in recursive intra/inter region" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,041, issued on April 21, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for chroma mode coding in recursive intra/inter region" was invented by Liang Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xin Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jing Ye (Palo Alto, Calif.), Han Gao (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method of video coding includes receiving a video bitstream including a plurality of blocks; identifying, based on a first indicator in the video bitstream, a coding region that includes two or more blocks of the plurality of blocks, where each block in the coding region ...