ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,723, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Device and method for decoding video data" was invented by Chih-Yu Teng (Taipei, Taiwan), Yu-Chiao Yang (Taipei, Taiwan) and Chih-Yuan Chen (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of decoding video data performed by an electronic device is provided. The method receives the video data and determines a block unit from a current frame included in the video data. The method further determines an intra prediction mode from a plurality of intra default modes, determine a cross-component prediction (CCP) merge list of the block unit including a plurality of ...