US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on July 29 for "Sign prediction for multiple color components in video coding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,687, issued on July 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Sign prediction for multiple color components in video coding" was invented by Hongtao Wang (San Diego), Jianle Chen (San Diego) and Marta Karczewicz (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method includes predicting, based on a plurality of color components of a block of video data coded using joint coding of chroma residuals (JCCR), a sign of a coefficient of a plurality of coefficients of a joint residual block of the block of video data; generating, for each respective color component of the plurality of color components and based on the plurality of...