US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on March 11 for "Method and system of video coding using a subset of available intra prediction modes for multiple reference lines" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,402, issued on March 11, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Method and system of video coding using a subset of available intra prediction modes for multiple reference lines" was invented by Liang Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xin Zhao (San Diego) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video decoding method incudes: obtaining a bitstream including a plurality of coded frames of a video signal; decoding each of the plurality of coded frames into a plurality of coding tree units (CTUs) and each of the plurality of CTUs into a plurality of residual blocks; recovering a coding block for each o...