ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,282, issued on July 15, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Warp mode for intra prediction" was invented by Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.), Liang Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Han Gao (San Diego), Jing Ye (San Jose, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes a set of advanced video coding technologies and is particular related to an intra warp prediction of a sample in a video block where the sample is intra predicted using a weighted sum of basis functions of pixel coordinate position of the sample. A set of weighting coefficients for the weighted sum may be predefi...