US Patent Issued to British Broadcasting on Sept. 30 for "Video encoding and video decoding" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,354, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to British Broadcasting Corp. (London).

"Video encoding and video decoding" was invented by Saverio Blasi (London), Andre Seixas Dias (London) and Gosala Kulupana (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Decoding of a merge-predicted block is carried out, for triangular partitions of the block, using a combination of inter-prediction and intra-prediction. The combination of inter-prediction and intra-prediction to be used is signalled on a received bitstream. Combination may be algorithmic, for example arithmetic."

The patent was filed on Aug. 24, 2023, under Application No. 18/237,686.

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