US Patent Issued to HFI INNOVATION on Aug. 5 for "Method and apparatus of luma-chroma separated coding tree coding with constraints" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,038, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to HFI INNOVATION INC. (Zhubei, Taiwan).

"Method and apparatus of luma-chroma separated coding tree coding with constraints" was invented by Chia-Ming Tsai (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Tzu-Der Chuang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chih-Wei Hsu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ching-Yeh Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Zhi-Yi Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for block partition are disclosed. If a cross-colour component prediction mode is allowed, the luma block and the chroma block are partitioned into one or more luma leaf blocks and chroma leaf blocks. If a cross-colour component prediction mode i...