ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,104, issued on March 18, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Non-transform coding" was invented by Jizheng Xu (Beijing) and Cuiling Lan (Xi'an, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for selectively transforming one or more coding units when coding video content are described herein. The techniques may include determining whether or not to transform a particular coding unit. The determination may be based on a difference in pixel values of the particular coding unit and/or one or more predefined rate-distortion constraints. When it is determined to not perform a transform, the particular co...