ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,335, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to BEIJING DAJIA INTERNET INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Geometric partition mode with explicit motion signaling" was invented by Xiaoyu Xiu (San Diego), Wei Chen (San Diego), Che-Wei Kuo (Beijing), Yi-Wen Chen (San Diego), Hong-Jheng Jhu (San Diego), Xianglin Wang (San Diego) and Bing Yu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums are provided for decoding a video block in geometry partition mode (GPM). The method includes: partitioning the video block into first and second geometric partitions; obtaining a first ...