US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Feb. 10 for "MPM list generation for multi-line intra prediction" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,706, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"MPM list generation for multi-line intra prediction" was invented by Liang Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.), Xiang Li (Saratoga, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a video decoding method, whether an intra prediction mode of a first neighboring block of a current block is an angular mode is determined. Whether an intra prediction mode of a second neighboring block of the current block is an angular mode is determined. A most probable mode (MPM) list that includes a plurality of candidate modes f...