US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on April 29 for "Adaptive switching of color spaces, color sampling rates and/or bit depths" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,467, issued on April 29, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Adaptive switching of color spaces, color sampling rates and/or bit depths" was invented by Bin Li (Beijing), Jizheng Xu (Beijing) and Feng Wu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Innovations in adaptive encoding and decoding for units of a video sequence can improve coding efficiency. For example, some of the innovations relate to encoding/decoding that includes adaptive switching of color spaces between units within a video sequence. Other innovations relate encoding/decoding that includes adaptive switching of color sampling rates betw...