US Patent Issued to Dolby Video Compression on April 22 for "Effective prediction using partition coding" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,368, issued on April 22, was assigned to Dolby Video Compression LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Effective prediction using partition coding" was invented by Philipp Merkle (Berlin), Christian Bartnik (Berlin), Haricharan Lakshman (Berlin), Detlev Marpe (Berlin), Karsten Mueller (Berlin), Thomas Wiegand (Berlin) and Gerhard Tech (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The way of predicting a current block by assigning constant partition values to the partitions of a bi-partitioning of a block is quite effective, especially in case of coding sample arrays such as depth/disparity maps where the content of these sample arrays is mostly composed ...