US Patent Issued to Tencent America on Nov. 11 for "Chroma from luma prediction based on merged chroma blocks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,716, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Chroma from luma prediction based on merged chroma blocks" was invented by Jing Ye (San Jose, Calif.), Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.), Liang Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Video processing devices and methods are disclosed to combine chroma blocks into a combined chroma block, determine neighbor luma samples of one or more luma blocks corresponding to the combined chroma block, average the reconstructed neighbor luma samples to generate a neighbor luma average, and perform a chroma from luma (CfL) pre...