US Patent Issued to ATI TECHNOLOGIES on Nov. 18 for "Video encoding/decoding using detected pattern of pixel intensity differences" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,143, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to ATI TECHNOLOGIES ULC (Markham, Canada).

"Video encoding/decoding using detected pattern of pixel intensity differences" was invented by Haibo Liu (Markham, Canada) and Ihab Amer (Markham, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus encode image frames using intra-frame prediction by predicting pixels for a block of current pixels, based on a detected spatial pattern of pixel intensity differences among a plurality of neighboring reconstructed pixels to the block of current pixels, and encode a block of pixels of the image frame using the predicted block of reconstructed pixels. ...