ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,109, issued on March 18, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Signaling of CTU size" was invented by Yixin Du (Los Altos, Calif.), Xin Zhao (San Diego), Xiang Li (Saratoga, Calif.) 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 processing circuitry. The processing circuitry determines a coding tree unit (CTU) size for a plurality of pictures. The processing circuitry generates CTU size information based on the determined CTU size. The processing circuitr...