ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,622, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Position-dependent intra-inter prediction combination in video coding" was invented by Geert Van der Auwera (Del Mar, Calif.), Luong Pham Van (San Diego), Adarsh Krishnan Ramasubramonian (Irvine, Calif.) and Marta Karczewicz (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example device for coding (encoding or decoding) video data includes a memory configured to store video data; and one or more processors implemented in circuitry and configured to: determine a first number of neighboring blocks to a current block of the video data that are intra-predicted; determine a ...