ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,381, issued on May 20, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Method and apparatus for video coding" was invented by Xiang Li (Los Gatos, Calif.), Xin Zhao (San Diego), Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.) and Meng Xu (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for video coding. An example method includes: encoding information associated with a block of a picture to be included in a coded video bitstream. The encoding information indicating a position of a sub-region in the block and a position of an additional sub-region in each of at least one neighboring block of the block, a combined sub-reg...