ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,624, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Alibaba (China) Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).
"Cross component prediction" was invented by Xinwei Li (Beijing), Jie Chen (Beijing), Yan Ye (San Diego) and Ru-ling Liao (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for encoding a video sequence into a bitstream and decoding a bitstream to output one or more pictures for a video stream. An exemplary method includes: receiving a video sequence; encoding one or more pictures of the video sequence; and generating a bitstream associated with the encoded pictures, wherein the encoding comprises: predicting chroma samples within a current blo...