ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,717, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Intra prediction method, coder, decoder, and coding and decoding system" was invented by Fan Wang (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intra prediction method, an encoder, and a decoder are provided. In the method, after determining the weights of at least two prediction modes on at least two units in a current block, the rate of change of a weight in a certain direction can be determined further according to the weights of the at least two units, and according to the rate of change, the weights on other unit...