ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,704, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Prediction value determination method and decoder" was invented by Jun Wang (Guangdong, China), Fan Liang (Guangdong, China) and Heng Zhang (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prediction value determination method and a decoder are provided. The method is for a decoder and includes the following. A bitstream is parsed to obtain a decoding parameter of a current block. A first template of the current block is obtained when the decoding parameter indicates that the current block uses a rotate template mode, w...