ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,314, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Chroma block prediction method and device" was invented by Xiang Ma (Moscow), Haitao Yang (Shenzhen, China) and Jianle Chen (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a chroma block prediction method and a device. The method includes: parsing a bitstream to obtain first indication information; downsampling a first luma block by a first filter when a value of the first indication information is a first value or by using a second filter when a value of the first indication information is a second value, to obtain a se...