US Patent Issued to Avago Technologies International Sales on Feb. 3 for "In-loop memory bandwidth compression in video coding" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,921, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"In-loop memory bandwidth compression in video coding" was invented by Minhua Zhou (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video decoder with in-loop memory bandwidth compression is provided. A video decoder includes a decoding logic configured to decode an encoded bitstream to generate a reference block of video data, and a memory bandwidth compression logic configured to compress the reference block of video data based on a selection between a first compression algorithm, second compression algorithm, or to copy the reference blo...