ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,790, issued on May 13, was assigned to BEIJING DAJIA INTERNET INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Methods and apparatuses for video coding using triangle partition" was invented by Xianglin Wang (San Diego), Yi-Wen Chen (San Diego), Xiaoyu Xiu (San Diego), Tsung-Chuan Ma (San Diego), Hong-Jheng Jhu (Beijing) and Bing Yu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses are provided for video coding. The method includes: partitioning video pictures into a plurality of CUs, at least one CU is further partitioned into two PUs including at least one geometric shaped PU; constructing a first merge list including a pl...