US Patent Issued to HFI INNOVATION on April 29 for "Method and apparatus for intra chroma coding in image and video coding" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,456, issued on April 29, was assigned to HFI INNOVATION INC. (Zhubei, Taiwan).

"Method and apparatus for intra chroma coding in image and video coding" was invented by Jing Ye (San Jose, Calif.), Xiaozhong Xu (State College, Pa.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for video coding of chroma coded in derived-mode Intra prediction are disclosed. If derived-mode (DM) Intra prediction is selected for a current chroma block, a corresponding luma block area is determined by locating a first upper-left pixel address of the corresponding luma block area corresponding to that of the current chr...