US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on June 3 for "Intra-picture prediction using non-adjacent reference lines of sample values" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,582, issued on June 3, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Intra-picture prediction using non-adjacent reference lines of sample values" was invented by Bin Li (Beijing), Jizheng Xu (Beijing) and Jiahao Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Innovations in intra-picture prediction with multiple candidate reference lines available are described herein. For example, intra-picture prediction for a current block uses a non-adjacent reference line of sample values to predict the sample values of the current block. This can improve the effectiveness of the intra-picture prediction when the reference lin...