ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,341, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Methods for intra prediction, and encoder" was invented by Shuai Wan (Dongguan, China), Fuzheng Yang (Dongguan, China), Zhecheng Wang (Dongguan, China) and Lei Wei (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for intra prediction includes: determining occupancy information of a first number of neighboring nodes of a coded node; determining occupancy information of a second number of neighboring nodes of the coded node based on a position association between at least one neighboring node of the coded node and ...