US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on May 27 for "Chroma-from-luma mode selection for high-performance video encoding" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,863, issued on May 27, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Chroma-from-luma mode selection for high-performance video encoding" was invented by Yonghai Wu (Shanghai), Jianjun Chen (Shanghai), Yongmao Tang (Shanghai), Jing Yang (Shanghai) and Wei Feng (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and techniques for efficient real-time codec encoding of video files. In one embodiments, the techniques include receiving one or more intra-prediction modes, each having a corresponding cost; calculating a first cost of a chroma-from-luma intra-prediction mode; calculating a second cost of the chroma-from-lu...