US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Nov. 11 for "Wide-angle intra prediction for non-square blocks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,734, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Wide-angle intra prediction for non-square blocks" was invented by Liang Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.), Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.) and Xiang Li (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide method and apparatus for video coding. In some examples, an apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry decodes prediction information of a first block from a coded video bitstream. The first block is a non-square block and the prediction information for the first block is indicative ...