ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,024, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).
"Apparatus, a method and a computer program for video coding and decoding" was invented by Pekka Astola (Tampere, Finland) and Jani Lainema (Tampere, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising: obtaining an image block unit comprising samples in color channels of one or two chrominance channels and one luminance channel (900); reconstructing samples of said luminance channel of the image block unit (902); predicting chrominance samples of at least one color channel of image block unit using at least two cross-component prediction models, eac...