US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on May 13 for "Intra prediction method and apparatus" (Chinese, Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,866, issued on May 13, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Intra prediction method and apparatus" was invented by Haitao Yang (Shenzhen, China), Nan Song (Shenzhen, China), Xu Chen (Shenzhen, China), Xiang Ma (Moscow), Huanbang Chen (Shenzhen, China) and Yin Zhao (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intra prediction method includes obtaining respective intra prediction modes or texture distributions of P reconstructed picture blocks in a surrounding region of a current block; obtaining, based on the respective intra prediction modes or texture distributions of the P reconstructed picture bl...