US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Oct. 20 for "Coding unit partitioning" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,857, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Coding unit partitioning" was invented by Hyung Joon Kim (McKinney, Texas), Minhua Zhou (Plano, Texas), Akira Osamoto (Plano, Texas) and Hideo Tamama (The Colony, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for coding unit partitioning in a video encoder is provided that includes performing intra-prediction on each permitted coding unit (CU) in a CU hierarchy of a largest coding unit (LCU) to determine an intra-prediction coding cost for each permitted CU, storing the intra-prediction coding cost for each intra-predicted CU in memory, and performing inter-pre...