US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 29 for "Adjusting quantization/scaling and inverse quantization/scaling when switching color spaces" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,668, issued on July 29, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Adjusting quantization/scaling and inverse quantization/scaling 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 adaptive encoding and decoding for units of a video sequence can improve coding efficiency when switching between color spaces during encoding and decoding. For example, some of the innovations relate to adjustment of quantization or scaling when an encoder switches color spaces between units within a video sequen...