ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,971, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"Video coding and video distribution" was invented by Minhua Zhou (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Motion compensation requires a significant amount of memory bandwidth, especially for smaller prediction unit sizes. The worst case bandwidth requirements can occur when bi-predicted 4x8 or 8x4 PUs are used. To reduce the memory bandwidth requirements for such smaller PUs, methods are provided for restricting inter-coded PUs of small block sizes to be coded only in a uni-predictive mode, i.e., forward prediction or backward prediction. More specifically, P...