US Patent Issued to HULU on Nov. 18 for "Processing sub-partitions using reference pixels" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,137, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to HULU LLC (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Processing sub-partitions using reference pixels" was invented by Wenhao Zhang (Beijing) and Jing Cui (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes transcoding, by a first transcoding process, a first sub-partition of a current block using a first set of reference pixels. Also, the method includes transcoding, by a second transcoding process, a second sub-partition of the current block using the first set of reference pixels. The first transcoding process transcodes a third sub-partition of the current block based on a second set of reference pixels...