US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on May 26 for "State machine-based quantization shifting offset for video and image compression" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,236, issued on May 26, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"State machine-based quantization shifting offset for video and image compression" was invented by Motong Xu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Roman Chernyak (Santa Clara, Calif.), Lien-Fei Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.), Biao Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Yonguk Yoon (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving a bitstream that comprises coded information of a current block, the coded information of the current block indicates a state transition path of a state machine, the state transi...