ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,337, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to ARRIS Enterprises LLC (Horsham, Pa.).
"General block partitioning method" was invented by Seungwook Hong (San Diego), Krit Panusopone (San Diego), Limin Wang (San Diego) and Yue Yu (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of partitioning in video coding for JVET, comprising representing a JVET coding tree unit as a root node in a quadtree plus binary tree (QTBT structure that can have quadtree or binary partitioning of the root node and quadtree or binary trees branching from each of the leaf nodes. The partitioning at any depth can use asymmetric binary partitioning to split a child ...