US Patent Issued to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS on March 25 for "Picture prediction method, encoder, decoder and computer storage medium" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,041, issued on March 25, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Picture prediction method, encoder, decoder and computer storage medium" was invented by Yanzhuo Ma (Dongguan, China), Ruipeng Qiu (Dongguan, China), Junyan Huo (Dongguan, China), Shuai Wan (Dongguan, China) and Fuzheng Yang (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image prediction method includes: an initial prediction value of a to-be-predicted colour component of a current block is determined; a sample associated with a reference colour component of the current block is determined; side information of the cur...