ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,114, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Signaling method for chroma intra prediction mode" was invented by Liang Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xin Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method of video decoding includes receiving a video bitstream that comprises a plurality of blocks including a current chroma block. When less than a threshold number of neighboring chroma blocks of a current chroma block use a chroma-from-luma (CfL) mode, a first context is selected as an entropy decoding context for a first flag. When at least the thres...