ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,120, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Intra mode coding" was invented by Liang Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, and computer readable storage medium for intra prediction mode coding in video decoding. The method includes receiving, by a device, a coded video bitstream for a block. The device includes a memory storing instructions and a processor in communication with the memory. The method also includes dividing, by the device, a list of intra modes into a plurality of intra mode sets for th...