US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Feb. 10 for "Adjustments to encoding and decoding when switching color spaces" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,744, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Adjustments to encoding and decoding when switching color spaces" was invented by Bin Li (Beijing), Jizheng Xu (Beijing) and Gary J. Sullivan (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Innovations in encoding or decoding when switching color spaces are presented. For example, some of the innovations relate to signaling of control information for adaptive color space transformation ("ACT"). Other innovations relate to ACT operations. These innovations can improve coding efficiency when switching between color spaces during encoding and d...