US Patent Issued to Tencent America on June 23 for "Signaling for zero residual flag and prediction mode" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,065, issued on June 23, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Signaling for zero residual flag and prediction mode" was invented by Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.), Liang Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Madhu Peringassery Krishnan (Mountain View, Calif.), Jing Ye (San Jose, Calif.), Han Gao (San Diego) 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/decoding. One method performed by a decoder includes receiving a video bitstream comprising a current picture, the current picture comprising a current block, and the current block comprising a current transform blo...