US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on Feb. 4 for "Picture partitioning method and apparatus" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,135, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd (Shenzhen, China).

"Picture partitioning method and apparatus" was invented by Yin Zhao (Hangzhou, China), Haitao Yang (Shenzhen, China), Jianle Chen (San Diego) and Lian Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A picture partitioning method and apparatus are described. The method includes determining a split mode of a current node, where the current node includes a luma block and a chroma block. The method further includes determining, based on the split mode of the current node and a size of the current node, that the chroma block of the current node is ...