ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,116, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for angular intra mode coding" was invented by Jing Ye (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xin Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Liang Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Han Gao (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The various implementations described herein include methods and systems for encoding and decoding video. In one aspect, a method of video decoding includes receiving video data that includes a first block from a video bitstream, where the first block is predicted in an angular prediction mode. The method als...