US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology on Dec. 9 for "Video coding method and apparatus, computing device, storage medium, and program product" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,138, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Video coding method and apparatus, computing device, storage medium, and program product" was invented by Tao Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video coding method is performed by a computing device, and the method includes: dividing a to-be-coded video frame image into a plurality of coding units; and for each coding unit, performing the following operations: determining color composition of the coding unit, the color composition comprising a quantity of colors comprised in the coding unit, further comprising: clustering a col...