ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,788, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Semi-decoupled partitioning for video coding" was invented by Liang Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xin Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for encoding or decoding video data. Video data including a chroma component and a luma component is received. A first coding tree structure associated with the luma component and a second coding tree structure associated with the chroma component are determined, wherein the first coding tree structure and the s...