ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,043, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Video coding with large macroblocks" was invented by Peisong Chen (San Diego), Yan Ye (San Diego) and Marta Karczewicz (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for encoding and decoding digital video data using macroblocks that are larger than the macroblocks prescribed by conventional video encoding and decoding standards. For example, the techniques include encoding and decoding a video stream using macroblocks comprising greater than 16x16 pixels. In one example, an apparatus includes a video encoder configured to encode a coded unit comp...