US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on June 17 for "Adaptive filter intra prediction modes in image/video compression" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,469, issued on June 17, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Adaptive filter intra prediction modes in image/video compression" was invented by Alexander Bokov (Mountian View, Calif.) and Hui Su (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compressed bitstream is configured for decoding by operations that include identifying an adaptive intra-prediction mode indicative of at least a training region or a configuration of neighboring pixel locations. The training region neighbors a block and consists of reconstructed pixels. Filter coefficients used to obtain respective prediction pixels of neighboring pixels wit...