US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Sept. 16 for "Sign coding for one-dimensional transform skip" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,669, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Sign coding for one-dimensional transform skip" was invented by Madhu Peringassery Krishnan (Mountain View, Calif.), Xin Zhao (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide a method and an apparatus including processing circuitry for video decoding. The processing circuitry can decode coding information of a transform block (TB) from a coded video bitstream. The coding information can indicate a transform skip in one direction for the TB. The processing circuitry can decode a sign ...