US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Feb. 11 for "Ultra light models and decision fusion for fast video coding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,225,221, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Ultra light models and decision fusion for fast video coding" was invented by Shan Li (Fremont, Calif.), Claudionor Coelho (Redwood City, Calif.), In Suk Chong (Mountain View, Calif.) and Aki Kuusela (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Ultra light models and decision fusion for increasing the speed of intra-prediction are described. Using a machine-learning (ML) model, an ML intra-prediction mode is obtained. A most-probable intra-prediction mode is obtained from amongst available intra-prediction modes for encoding the current block. As an enc...