ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,724, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Multi-phase cross component prediction" was invented by Xin Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jing Ye (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 coding video. In one aspect, a video bitstream includes a current coding block of an image frame and includes a cross-component intra prediction mode. A computing system identifies a sample of the first color component and a sample of the secon...