US Patent Issued to Sharp on June 10 for "Systems and methods for varying quantization parameters" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,452, issued on June 10, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Systems and methods for varying quantization parameters" was invented by Jie Zhao (Camas, Wash.), Seung-Hwan Kim (Camas, Wash.), Kiran Mukesh Misra (Vancouver, Wash.) and Christopher Andrew Segall (Camas, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of encoding video data by a device is provided. Transform coefficient values associated with a chroma coding block are received. The chroma coding block is one of chroma coding blocks resulting from partitioning a chroma coding tree block and misaligned with a luma coding tree block corresponding to the chroma coding tre...