US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on July 15 for "Geometric partition based intra prediction" (South Korean, American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,288, issued on July 15, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Geometric partition based intra prediction" was invented by Ling Li (Seoul, South Korea), Xiang Li (Saratoga, Calif.), Lien-Fei Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the method, coded information of a coding unit (CU) in a picture of a video is received from a coded video bitstream. The CU is partitioned into a first partition and a second partition based on a geometric partition mode (GPM). The first partition and the second partition are rectangular partitions that are adjacent to each other and divide...