US Patent Issued to Tencent America on Oct. 7 for "Short distance predictions for residual blocks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,089, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Short distance predictions for residual blocks" was invented by Tianqi Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Liang Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jing Ye (Palo Alto, Calif.), Han Gao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xin Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The various implementations described herein include methods and systems for coding video. In one aspect, a method of video decoding includes receiving video data that includes a first block and a plurality of residual coefficients, from a video bitstream. The first block is encoded...