US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology on Dec. 9 for "Determining prediction samples of pixels based on color sampling mode of the picture block" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,156, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Guangdong, China).

"Determining prediction samples of pixels based on color sampling mode of the picture block" was invented by Yingbin Wang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a prediction sample of a picture block includes acquiring a type of a current pixel string where a current pixel in a current picture block is located, and determining a reference pixel value of the current pixel according to the type of the current pixel string. The method further includes obtaining a prediction sample of the current pixel according to a co...