US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on June 17 for "Mode list generation for multi-line intra prediction" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,468, issued on June 17, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Mode list generation for multi-line intra prediction" 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 of signaling an intra prediction mode used to encode a current block in an encoded video bitstream includes generating a first most probable mode (MPM) list corresponding to a zero reference line of the current block, wherein the first MPM list includes a first plurality of intra prediction modes; generating a second MPM list corresp...