US Patent Issued to HFI INNOVATION on Aug. 5 for "Method and apparatus of encoding or decoding with mode dependent intra smoothing filter in intra prediction" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,015, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to HFI INNOVATION INC. (Zhubei, Taiwan).

"Method and apparatus of encoding or decoding with mode dependent intra smoothing filter in intra prediction" was invented by Chia-Ming Tsai (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chih-Wei Hsu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video processing method for a video encoder or decoder comprises receiving input data of a current block, determining an intra prediction mode and reference samples according to the intra prediction mode, determining an intra reference sample filter from a Gaussian interpolation filter and an alternative interpolation filter for the curr...