ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,866, issued on May 27, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Skip transform flag coding" was invented by Madhu Peringassery Krishnan (Mountain View, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, and computer readable storage medium for encoding/decoding video data in a decoder. The method includes receiving a coded bitstream comprising a luma transform skip flag associated with a luma coded block, the luma coded block comprising n transform blocks, n being a positive integer; receiving, via the coded bitstream, at least one chroma transform skip flag associated with at l...