ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,325, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Alibaba (China) Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).
"On planar intra prediction mode" was invented by Xinwei Li (Beijing), Ru-Ling Liao (Beijing), Jie Chen (Beijing) and Yan Ye (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An input video or video stream may be obtained or received. The input video or video stream may include a plurality of video frames, and each frame may be divided into a plurality of blocks. A current block of the plurality of blocks may be predicted using a planar mode. Depending on which planar mode is used, different reference samples may be used for predicting a current sample in the...