ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,358, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to BEIJING DAJIA INTERNET INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"System and method for combined inter and intra prediction" was invented by Xiaoyu Xiu (San Diego), Yi-Wen Chen (San Diego) and Xianglin Wang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for video coding is provided. The method includes: determining that a combined inter and intra prediction mode is applied to a current coding block; generating an inter prediction of the current coding block based on an inter prediction mode; generating an intra prediction of the current coding block based on an intra prediction mode; gener...