US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on April 29 for "Chroma block prediction method and apparatus" (Chinese, Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,455, issued on April 29, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Chroma block prediction method and apparatus" was invented by Xiang Ma (Moscow), Fan Mu (Shenzhen, China), Yin Zhao (Hangzhou, China) and Haitao Yang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a chroma block prediction method and apparatus. The method includes: obtaining chroma values of chroma samples; obtaining, luma values of luma samples corresponding to the chroma samples; obtaining, from the luma values, a first luma set and a second luma set; grouping the chroma values into a first chroma set and a second ch...