US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Nov. 4 for "Coefficient sign prediction for transform skip" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,132, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Coefficient sign prediction for transform skip" was invented by Samruddhi Yashwant Kahu (Laguna Hills, Calif.), Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.), Madhu Peringassery Krishnan (Mountain View, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. In some examples, an apparatus includes processing circuitry that is configured to receive a coded video stream including a current block that is associated with a transform block, and determine whether a transf...