ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,320, issued on July 15, was assigned to Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).
"Block partitioning methods for video coding" was invented by Ru-Ling Liao (Beijing), Jie Chen (Beijing), Yan Ye (San Mateo, Calif.) and Jiancong Luo (San Mateo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems and methods for processing video content. The method can include: partitioning, along a partitioning edge, a plurality of blocks associated with a picture into a first partition and a second partition; performing inter prediction on the plurality of blocks, to generate a first prediction signal for th...