US Patent Issued to Tencent America on Oct. 14 for "Chroma block vector and chroma coding mode derivation" (Pennsylvania, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,601, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Chroma block vector and chroma coding mode derivation" was invented by Xiaozhong Xu (State College, Pa.), Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.), Roman Chernyak (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure includes methods and apparatuses that includes processing circuitry that derives a chroma prediction mode of a chroma block in a chroma coding region based on luma coding information of a luma block associated with a position in a reconstructed luma area that is collocated with the chroma block. The chroma codi...