ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,706, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).
"Device and method for coding video data" was invented by Yu-Chiao Yang (Taipei, Taiwan) and Po-Han Lin (Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of decoding a bitstream is provided. The method determines a block unit of an image frame of the bitstream. The method determines an intra prediction mode index of the block unit, which corresponds to one of multiple wide-angle candidate modes, each having an angle parameter. The method determines reference samples neighboring the block unit and whether the determined intra prediction mode index is equal to one...