ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,980, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Template selection for intra prediction in video coding" was invented by Yao-Jen Chang (San Diego), Keming Cao (San Diego), Vadim Seregin (San Diego) and Marta Karczewicz (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of coding video data comprises determining, based on a comparison of a threshold and a quantity of reference samples in a selected template, whether the selected template is allowed, wherein a mode index indicates which template from among a plurality of templates is the selected template, wherein each of the templates includes a different set of re...