US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on March 4 for "Chroma transform type determination" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,803, issued on March 4, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Chroma transform type determination" was invented by In Suk Chong (Mountain View, Calif.), Hui Su (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Aki Kuusela (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For a coding block of an image, a luma prediction block is generated, a luma residual block is generated, a quantized luma block is generated after transforming the luma residual block using a luma transform type, and the quantized luma block is entropy encoded. A chroma prediction block is generated, a chroma residual block is generated, an initial chroma transform type for th...