US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on Dec. 2 for "Reducing grid artifacts in video frames" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,891, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Reducing grid artifacts in video frames" was invented by Yi Guo (Zhejiang, China), Zhichu He (Zhejiang, China), Rui Li (Zhejiang, China), Bo Ling (Saratoga, Calif.), Jing Wu (Zhejiang, China), Minxia Yang (Zhejiang, China) and YiChen Zhang (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example, a video encoder divides a superblock of a video frame into subblocks. The dividing includes dividing the superblock according to a first and second partitioning schemes to generate a first and second combination of subblocks, respectively. The number of...