ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,327, issued on April 7, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Residual coding constraint flag signaling" was invented by Byeongdoo Choi (Vancouver, Wash.), Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.) and Stephan Wenger (Hillsborough, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method of video decoding, a no transform skip residual coding rice constraint flag in a general constraint information (GCI) syntax structure for coded video data in a bitstream is determined. The no transform skip residual coding rice constraint flag is associated with a residual coding tool. When the no transform skip residual coding rice constraint flag i...