ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,410, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for recursive inter region partitioning" was invented by Liang Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xin Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Han Gao (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method includes receiving a video bitstream comprising a plurality of coding blocks. The method includes identifying, based on a first indicator in the video bitstream, a coding region that comprises two or more luma blocks and two or more chroma blocks. A subset of luma blocks in the coding region is encoded in a fi...