US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Sept. 16 for "Signaling of downsampling filters for chroma from luma intra prediction mode" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,648, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Signaling of downsampling filters for chroma from luma intra prediction mode" was invented by Jing Ye (San Jose, Calif.), Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.), Liang Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for performing chroma from luma (CfL) intra prediction, including: receiving a current chroma block from a coded bitstream; determining whether CfL intra prediction mode is enabled for the coded bitstream; determining a color format corresponding to the coded bitstream; based on determini...