ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,663, issued on July 29, was assigned to Alibaba Innovation Private Ltd. (Singapore).
"Methods and systems for performing combined inter and intra prediction" 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: "A method for performing combined inter and intra prediction (CIIP) includes determining the CIIP being enabled for a target block; determining a first intra prediction mode of the target block using a template-based intra mode derivation (TIMD) method; generating an intra predictor of the target block with the ...