ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,109, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for intra sub-partitions coding mode" was invented by Roman Igorevich Chernyak (Moscow), Timofey Mikhailovich Solovyev (Munich), Yin Zhao (Hangzhou, China), Sergey Yurievich Ikonin (Moscow) and Jianle Chen (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and methods for Intra Sub-Partitions (ISP) are provided. The method includes: obtaining information of ISP, and determining a size of a chroma transform block (TB) of the coding unit based on SubWidthC and SubHeightC when at least a first condition is fulfilled. The fir...