US Patent Issued to Tencent America on Sept. 2 for "Selecting downsampling filters for chroma from luma prediction" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,824, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Selecting downsampling filters for chroma from luma prediction" 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: "This disclosure relates to video processing that includes iteratively predicting a chroma block in a Chroma from Luma (CfL) prediction mode based on downsampled luma samples downsampled from a plurality of downsampling filters, and selecting a target downsampling filter from the plurality of downsampling filters that correspond...