US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on March 18 for "Adaptive coding unit (CU) partitioning based on image statistics" (Georgia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,087, issued on March 18, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Adaptive coding unit (CU) partitioning based on image statistics" was invented by Hyung Joon Kim (Johns Creek, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining coding unit (CU) partitioning of a largest coding unit (LCU) of a picture is provided that includes computing a first statistical measure and a second statistical measure for the LCU, selecting the LCU as the CU partitioning when the first statistical measure does not exceed a first threshold and the second statistical measure does not exceed a second threshold, and selecting CUs in one or m...