US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on July 21 for "Multi-quantizer method for image and video compression" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,730, issued on July 21, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Multi-quantizer method for image and video compression" was invented by Motong Xu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Roman Chernyak (Palo Alto, Calif.), Lien-Fei Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.), Yonguk Yoon (Palo Alto, Calif.), Biao Wang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Shan Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Ziyue Xiang (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 comprising a plurality of blocks and a plurality of quantized transform coefficients, and determining a quantized level for a quantized transform coefficie...