ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,405, issued on June 9, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Constraint of intra mode for geometric partition mode with inter and intra prediction" was invented by Lien-Fei Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ling Li (Seoul, South Korea), Xiang Li (Saratoga, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes processing circuitry that is configured to receive a bitstream including coded information of a current block. The processing circuitry is configured to partition the current block into a first partition and a second partition based on a geometric partition mode (GPM). The processin...