US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Feb. 17 for "Block adaptive multi-hypothesis cross component prediction" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,730, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Block adaptive multi-hypothesis cross component prediction" was invented by Jing Ye (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xin Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Liang Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Han Gao (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The various implementations described herein include methods and systems for coding video. In one aspect, a video bitstream includes a current coding block of an image frame and signals a cross-component intra prediction mode and a hypothesis tap index. An computing system identifies a first luma sam...