US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Sept. 30 for "Intra chroma mode list construction for video coding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,344, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Intra chroma mode list construction for video coding" was invented by Yao-Jen Chang (San Diego), Keming Cao (San Diego), Bappaditya Ray (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 encoding or decoding video data includes constructing a list of chroma intra-prediction modes for a chroma block of a current block of the video data, wherein constructing includes adding intra-prediction modes of a first group to the list of chroma intra-prediction modes, the first group comprising two or more intra-pr...