ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,726, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Position dependent spatial varying transform for video coding" was invented by Yin Zhao (Shenzhen, China), Haitao Yang (Shenzhen, China) and Jianle Chen (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanism for position dependent spatial varying transform (SVT) for video coding. A prediction block and a corresponding transformed residual block are received at a decoder. A type of spatial varying transform (SVT) employed to generate the transformed residual block is determined. A position of the SVT relative to the transformed residual block is al...