ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,976, issued on April 15, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Intra-inter prediction mode" was invented by Liang Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xin Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xiang Li (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved scheme for intra-inter prediction mode and an adaptive intra-inter prediction mode for video coding/decoding, including selecting a set of weightings in an intra-inter mode and applying position dependent intra prediction combination to modify at least one of an inter prediction sample and another sample."
The patent was filed on Dec. 15, 2023, ...