US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on June 24 for "Method and apparatus for DC intra prediction of rectangular blocks using an aspect ratio" (Russian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,991, issued on June 24, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for DC intra prediction of rectangular blocks using an aspect ratio" was invented by Alexey Konstantinovich Filippov (Moscow), Vasily Alexeevich Rufitskiy (Moscow) and Jianle Chen (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for intra prediction of a current block of a picture is provided. The method includes obtaining an aspect ratio of the current block according to a width and a height of the current block; obtaining a weighting factor based on the aspect ratio, and determining an intra-prediction value of the curre...