ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,735, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Spatially varying transform with adaptive transform type" was invented by Yin Zhao (Hangzhou, China), Haitao Yang (Shenzhen, China) and Jianle Chen (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video decoding method includes determining a usage of an SVT-vertical (V) or an SVT-horizontal (H) for a residual block; determining a transform block position of a transform block of the residual block; determining a transform type of the transform block, wherein the transform type indicates a horizontal transform and a vertical transform for the transform...