ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,541, issued on April 8, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"Scalable prediction type coding" was invented by Minhua Zhou (Plano, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for encoding a video sequence is provided that includes signaling in the compressed bit stream that a subset of a plurality of partitioning modes is used for inter-prediction of a portion of the video sequence, using only the subset of partitioning modes for prediction of the portion of the video sequence, and entropy encoding partitioning mode syntax elements corresponding to the portion of the video sequence, wherein at least one partitioning mod...