ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,378, issued on May 20, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).
"Method and apparatus of filtering for cross-component linear model prediction" was invented by Alexey Konstantinovich Filippov (Moscow), Vasily Alexeevich Rufitskiy (Moscow) and Elena Alexandrovna Alshina (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to methods and a coding apparatus for intra prediction using a linear model. The method includes: determining a filter for a luma component of a current block based on a chroma format of a picture that the current block belongs to, and applying the determined filter to an area of reco...