ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,407, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Compound inter-intra prediction modes" was invented by Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.), Madhu Peringassery Krishnan (Mountain View, Calif.), Liang Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for applying adaptive weightings on intra prediction and inter prediction parts in compound inter-intra prediction modes includes defining a template area of neighboring reconstruction or prediction samples, applying one or more adaptive weighting candidates to the template area to generate one or more prediction sampl...