US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on July 15 for "Prediction mode determining method and apparatus, encoding device, and decoding device" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,296, issued on July 15, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Prediction mode determining method and apparatus, encoding device, and decoding device" was invented by Haitao Yang (Shenzhen, China), Yin Zhao (Hangzhou, China) and Lian Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prediction mode determining method includes determining a split mode for a current picture block, determining whether a first picture subblock that meets a preset condition is obtained after the current picture block is split in the split mode, splitting the current picture block in the split mode to obtain a plurality of ...