ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,943, issued on July 8, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Angular intra prediction" was invented by Liang Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xin Zhao (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jing Ye (San Jose, Calif.), Han Gao (San Diego) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Coded information of a current block and neighboring blocks of the current block is received, where the current block is predicted in an intra directional mode. The intra directional mode of the current block is determined to be associated with an angle that is one of smaller than 90 degrees and larger than 180 degrees. In response to the intr...