ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,422, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Primary transforms for cross-component level reconstruction" was invented by Madhu Peringassery Krishnan (Mountain View, Calif.), Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates generally to video coding and particularly to cross component level reconstruction. For example, a method is disclosed for processing video data which may include encoding a video block comprising a first transform block of a first color component and a second transform block of a second color component, wherein t...