ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,815, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Transform selection in a video encoder and/or video decoder" was invented by Ruoyang Yu (Taby, Sweden), Rickard Sjoberg (Stockholm) and Zhi Zhang (Solna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for selecting a transform set for a prediction block. The process can be used in both an encoder and a decoder. For example, the process can be used in both an encoder and a decoder for a prediction block that has been predicted from a reference block. In some embodiments, both the prediction block and the reference block are intra blocks."

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