US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on June 3 for "Angular intra prediction" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,581, issued on June 3, 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 a plurality of reference lines of the current block is received. A first offset value is determined in a first mapping table and associated with a first reference line of the plurality of reference lines that is adjacent to the current block. A second offset value is determined in a second mapping table...