US Patent Issued to Futurewei Technologies on Sept. 23 for "Intra-prediction with multiple refence lines" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,580, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Futurewei Technologies Inc. (Addison, Texas).

"Intra-prediction with multiple refence lines" was invented by Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.) and Xiang Ma (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoding or decoding method implemented by a video coding device is provided. In an encoding method, the video coding device determines a value of a reference line index of a coding unit, and determines an intra-prediction mode from a list of most probable modes when the value of the reference line index indicates an additional reference line. The video coding device also encodes coding unit int...