ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,716, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Multi-line intra prediction" was invented by Liang Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xin Zhao (San Diego), Xiang Li (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of and an apparatus for controlling intra prediction for decoding of a video sequence are provided. The method may include based on a reference line index signaling a first reference line nearest to a coding unit, among a plurality of reference lines adjacent to the coding unit, applying intra smoothing on one or more first reference lines comprising the fi...