US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Dec. 9 for "Mapping wide angle modes to intra prediction modes for a partition of a coding block" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,159, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Mapping wide angle modes to intra prediction modes for a partition of a coding block" was invented by Liang Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xin Zhao (San Diego), 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 decoding prediction information that indicates a partition of the current block and indicates an index indicating a first intra prediction mode in a first set of intra prediction modes for a first partition of the current block. The method further includes, when the first parti...