US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Aug. 5 for "Coding tool parameter selection by mapping wide angle intra prediction modes to non-wide intra prediction modes" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,027, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Coding tool parameter selection by mapping wide angle intra prediction modes to non-wide intra prediction modes" was invented by Liang Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xin Zhao (Santa Clara, Calif.), Xiang Li (Saratoga, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for video decoding includes determining that an angular intra prediction mode for a current block is a wide angle mode. The method further includes determining a non-wide angle mode that corresponds to the wide angle mode, the non-wide angle mode being spaced apart fro...