US Patent Issued to Tencent America on July 7 for "Recursive intra region partitioning" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,988, issued on July 7, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Recursive intra region partitioning" was invented by Liang Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.), Han Gao (San Diego), Jing Ye (San Jose, Calif.), Madhu Peringassery Krishnan (Mountain View, Calif.), Yushin Cho (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates generally to video coding and particularly to methods, devices, and systems for signaling prediction modes in recursively partitioned video frames. For example, a regional prediction mode flag syntax element may be introduced fo...