US Patent Issued to Apple on July 15 for "Encoding and decoding video content using prediction-aware flexible skip coding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,331, issued on July 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Encoding and decoding video content using prediction-aware flexible skip coding" was invented by Alican Nalci (La Jolla, Calif.), Alexandros Tourapis (Los Gatos, Calif.), Hilmi Enes Egilmez (San Jose, Calif.), Hsi-Jung Wu (San Jose, Calif.), Jun Xin (San Jose, Calif.), Yeqing Wu (Milpitas, Calif.), Yixin Du (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Yunfei Zheng (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example method, a decoder obtains a data stream representing video content. The video content is partitioned into one or more logical units, and each of the logic...