ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,790, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to INTERDIGITAL MADISON PATENT HOLDINGS SAS (Paris).
"Combining ABT with VVC sub-block-based coding tools" was invented by Fabrice Leleannec (Betton, France), Baptiste Esteban (Grossoeuvre, France), Karam Naser (Mouaze, France) and Gagan Bihari Rath (Rennes, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Asymmetric binary trees are used in combination with coding tools such as transform unit tiling, affine motion compensation, decoder side motion vector refinement, and bidirectional optical flow. In another embodiment asymmetric binary trees is used in combination with subblock temporal motion vector predi...