ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,787, issued on May 13, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Intra prediction for non-square block" was invented by Liang Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.), Xiang Li (Saratoga, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for video decoding, a determination, for a current block that is a non-square block, is made as to whether an angular intra prediction mode for the current block is a wide angle mode that is in a direction outside of a range of directions that spans a bottom left diagonal direction and top right diagonal direction of the current block. When...