ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,333, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Flexible tree structure" was invented by Xiang Li (San Jose, Calif.), Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.), Xin Zhao (San Diego), Jing Ye (San Jose, Calif.) and Liang Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for partitioning a block to permit the encoding or decoding of a video sequence includes partitioning the block using a split-to-square partition pattern, a horizontal binary tree partition pattern, or a horizontal ternary tree partition pattern to generate a set of sub-blocks, wherein a same priority is allocated to the ...