ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,987, issued on June 24, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Prediction decoding method and apparatus" was invented by Junyan Huo (Guangdong, China), Yanzhuo Ma (Guangdong, China), Shuai Wan (Guangdong, China), Fuzheng Yang (Guangdong, China) and Qihong Ran (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prediction decoding method, a prediction decoding apparatus, and a non-transitory computer storage medium are provided. The method includes the following. First multiple neighbouring reference samples of a coding block are determined, where the first multiple neighbouring referen...