US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on April 15 for "Palette based coding with local dual tree coding structure" (Pennsylvania, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,980, issued on April 15, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Palette based coding with local dual tree coding structure" was invented by Xiaozhong Xu (State College, Pa.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. In some examples, an apparatus for video encoding includes receiving circuitry and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry determines whether a block is under a local dual tree structure, and disallows a palette based coding mode for encoding the block in response to the block being under the...