ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,795, issued on March 4, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Guangdong, China).
"Device and method for intra-prediction" was invented by Alexey Konstantinovich Filippov (Moscow) and Vasily Alexeevich Rufitskiy (Moscow).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to the field of picture processing, for example still picture/image and/or video picture/image coding. In particular, the application relates to a device and corresponding method for intra-predicting a prediction block of a video image. The device is configured to select a directional intra-prediction mode from a set of directional intra-prediction...