ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,285, issued on July 15, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Image prediction method, apparatus, and system, device, and storage medium" was invented by Yin Zhao (Hangzhou, China), Haitao Yang (Shenzhen, China), Jianle Chen (San Diego) and Lian Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image prediction method, apparatus, and system, a device, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: (401) obtaining a split mode of a current node, where the current node is an image block in a coding tree unit in a current image; (402) determining, based on the split mode of the current node an...