ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,590, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to BEIJING DAJIA INTERNET INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Methods and apparatus of video coding for triangle prediction" was invented by Xianglin Wang (San Diego) and Yi-Wen Chen (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for video coding is provided. The method includes: partitioning video pictures into a plurality of coding units (CUs), at least one of which is further portioned into two prediction units (PUs) including at least one triangular shaped PU with a partitioning orientation in one of: from top-left corner to bottom-right corner, and from top-right corner to botto...