US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on May 27 for "Video coding using mapped transforms and scanning modes" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,873, issued on May 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Video coding using mapped transforms and scanning modes" was invented by Peisong Chen (San Diego), Yunfei Zheng (San Jose, Calif.), Rajan Laxman Joshi (San Diego), Muhammed Zeyd Coban (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Marta Karczewicz (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video encoder may transform residual data by using a transform selected from a group of transforms. The transform is applied to the residual data to create a two-dimensional array of transform coefficients. A scanning mode is selected to scan the transform coefficients in the two-dimensional array into a ...