US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on May 20 for "Block-level adaptive mixed-resolution prediction" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,359, issued on May 20, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Block-level adaptive mixed-resolution prediction" was invented by Sehoon Yea (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure include methods, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums for video encoding/decoding. An apparatus includes processing circuitry that decodes a video bitstream to obtain a reduced-resolution residual block for a current block. The processing circuitry determines that a block level flag is set to a pre-defined value. Th...