US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Feb. 10 for "Systems and methods for partition-based predictions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,722, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for partition-based predictions" was invented by Han Gao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xin Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Liang Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The various embodiments described herein include methods and systems for encoding and decoding video. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining video data comprising a plurality of blocks, including a first block. The method also includes identifying a first partition mode from a plurality of partition modes for the first block, where...