US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Oct. 21 for "Hash-based encoder decisions for video coding" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,435, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Hash-based encoder decisions for video coding" was invented by Bin Li (Beijing) and Ji-Zheng Xu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Innovations in encoder-side decisions that use the results of hash-based block matching are presented. For example, some of the innovations relate to ways of building hash tables that include some (but not all) uniform blocks. Other innovations relate to ways of determining motion vector resolution based on results of hash-based block matching. Still other innovations relate to scene change detection, includ...