ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,114, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Geometric partition mode in video coding" was invented by Chun-Chi Chen (San Diego), Han Huang (San Diego), Vadim Seregin (San Diego) and Marta Karczewicz (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of encoding or decoding video data includes determining that geometric partition mode is enabled for a current block of the video data, the geometric partition mode comprising a plurality of split modes that each defines an edge for partitioning; for each split mode among at least two of the plurality of split modes, determining a respective cost associated with a re...