ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,168, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Constrained coding tree for video coding" was invented by Jianle Chen (San Diego), Yin Zhao (Guangdong, China) and Haitao Yang (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video coding mechanism is disclosed. The mechanism includes partitioning an image to create at least one coding tree unit (CTU) with at least one coding tree node. The mechanism further includes determining that the coding tree node height is twice a maximum transform unit (TU) height and the coding tree node width is twice a maximum TU width. The mechanism further includes ...