ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,045, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Flexible block partitioning for chroma component" was invented by Liang Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xin Zhao (San Diego) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach for encoding/decoding video data including parsing video data to obtain partitioning parameters; obtaining a partitioned super block; and decoding based on the partitioned super block, wherein based on a luma block area size, or a luma splitting depth of the smallest luma block, either luma blocks and chroma blocks of the partitioned super block are partitioned ba...