ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,308, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"Lossless coding mode in video coding" was invented by Minhua Zhou (Plano, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for coding a video sequence is provided that includes encoding a portion of a picture in the video sequence in lossless coding mode, and signaling a lossless coding indicator in a compressed bit stream, wherein the lossless coding indicator corresponds to the portion of a picture and indicates whether or not the portion of the picture is losslessly coded. A method for decoding a compressed video bit stream is provided that includes determining...