US Patent Issued to Tencent America on Sept. 9 for "Cross-channel prediction based on multiple prediction modes" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,734, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Cross-channel prediction based on multiple prediction modes" was invented by 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 describes a set of advanced video coding technologies. More specifically, the disclosed technology involves cross-channel prediction and particularly chroma from luma (CfL) prediction. In some example implementations, a sample in a chroma channel is predicted based on a weighted sum or average of an alternate current prediction contribution ...