US Patent Issued to HFI INNOVATION on Jan. 27 for "Method and apparatus of encoding or decoding using reference samples determined by predefined criteria" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,942, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to HFI INNOVATION INC. (Zhubei, Taiwan).

"Method and apparatus of encoding or decoding using reference samples determined by predefined criteria" was invented by Zhi-Yi Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Tzu-Der Chuang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Ching-Yeh Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video processing method comprises receiving input data of a current block, checking if the current block satisfies one or more predefined criteria, setting the current block to be a root block if the current block satisfies the predefined criteria, one or more color components of one or more blocks in the cur...