US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on July 8 for "Simplification for cross-component linear model prediction mode" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,019, issued on July 8, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Simplification for cross-component linear model prediction mode" was invented by Liang Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xin Zhao (San Diego), Xiang Li (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for encoding or decoding a video sequence includes applying a Cross-Component Linear Model (CCLM) to a video sequence, and applying an interpolation filter in the Cross-Component Linear Model (CCLM), wherein the interpolation filter is dependent upon a YUV format of the video sequence."

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