US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Aug. 5 for "Chroma from luma prediction using mapping and different types" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,066, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Chroma from luma prediction using mapping and different types" was invented by Jing Ye (San Jose, Calif.), Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.), Liang Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to video processing that includes: determining that a chroma block is to be predicted in a Chroma from Luma (CfL) mode, wherein the chroma block corresponds to a luma block; mapping a plurality of luma samples of the luma block to a plurality of neighbor chroma samples in at least one neighbor chroma block ...