ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,128, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Mixed-model cross-component prediction mode" was invented by Xin Zhao (Santa Clara, Calif.), Guichun Li (San Jose, Calif.), Lien-Fei Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A feature value is determined based on at least one of (i) neighboring reconstructed chroma samples of a current chroma block and (ii) neighboring reconstructed luma samples of a luma block that is collocated with the current chroma block. Chroma samples of the current chroma block and luma samples of the luma block that is collocated with t...