ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,402, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Dongguang, China).

"Image component prediction method, encoder, decoder, and storage medium" was invented by Yanzhuo Ma (Dongguan, China), Junyan Huo (Dongguan, China), Shuai Wan (Dongguan, China) and Wei Zhang (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method for predicting a colour component, an encoder and a decoder. The method includes: a first reference sample set of a colour component to be predicted of a current block is determined; a reference sample subset is determined from the first reference sample set, where t...