ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,724, issued on July 1, was assigned to Alibaba Innovation Private Ltd. (Singapore).
"Fusion of video prediction modes" was invented by Xinwei Li (San Mateo, Calif.), Ru-Ling Liao (San Mateo, Calif.), Jie Chen (San Mateo, Calif.) and Yan Ye (San Mateo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods and systems for fusing chroma intra prediction modes. An exemplary method includes: generating a plurality of predicted chroma samples associated with a pixel, by using a plurality of chroma intra prediction modes respectively; and determining a first predicted chroma sample, based on a weighted sum of the plur...