ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,883, issued on May 13, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Video coding method and apparatus utilizing group of encoding units" was invented by Ho Chan Ryu (Seoul, South Korea) and Yong Jo Ahn (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a block partitioning structure from among the video coding schemes, and a method and apparatus for encoding and decoding the block partitioning structure. The video encoding and decoding method comprises the steps of: combining two or more encoding units of maximum size into a single encoding unit group; acquiring encoding data co...