ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,040, issued on April 14, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"Video encoding and distribution methods" was invented by Minhua Zhou (Plano, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for a low complexity transform unit partitioning structure for High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC). The method includes determining prediction unit size of a coding unit, and setting the size of transform unit size of Y, U and V according to the prediction unit size of the coding unit."
The patent was filed on Sept. 5, 2025, under Application No. 19/320,687.
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