ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,628, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).
"Picture prediction method and apparatus" was invented by Weiwei Xu (Hangzhou, China), Haitao Yang (Shenzhen, China) and Yin Zhao (Hangzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A picture prediction method includes receiving a bitstream; parsing the bitstream to obtain a prediction mode of a current block; when the prediction mode of the current block is a combined intra and inter prediction mode, selecting an execution manner of a triangular prediction unit mode according to a preset policy; determining motion information of the current block ac...