ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,301, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Chroma intra prediction method and device" was invented by Junyan Huo (Guangdong, China), Yanzhuo Ma (Guangdong, China), Shuai Wan (Guangdong, China), Fuzheng Yang (Guangdong, China) and Xinwei Li (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Chroma intra prediction methods and devices are provided. The method comprises parsing bitstream data corresponding to a current chroma block, and determining that a prediction mode corresponding to the current chroma block is DM; before determining a set of chroma prediction modes...