On July 13, 2020, Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $5,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claims 1 of U.S. Patent 10,250,913, owned by GE Video Compression LLC. Specifically, Unified is seeking prior art on the following elements of claim 1:

Divide an array of information samples representing a spatially sampled portion of the video information into a first set of root regions based on the first maximum region size
Determine whether a size of at least one of the first set of sub-regions exceeds the second maximum region size
Responsive to a determination that the size of at least one of the first set of sub-regions does exceed the second maximum region size, divide at least one of the first set of sub-regions into a second set of root regions of the second maximum region size

The '913 patent generally relates to coding schemes for coding a spatially sampled information signal using sub-division and coding schemes for coding a sub-division or a multitree structure are described, wherein representative embodiments relate to picture and/or video coding applications.

APEX STANDARDS has shared US and non-US prior art as well as corresponding claim charting against the patent.

Techson IP has provided its full validity-focused Limestone|Report, the full Report link is here.

The contest will expire on August 31, 2020. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.