US Patent Issued to ZHEJIANG DAHUA TECHNOLOGY on May 13 for "Linear model prediction method and coder" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,831, issued on May 13, was assigned to ZHEJIANG DAHUA TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Hangzhou, China).

"Linear model prediction method and coder" was invented by Feiyang Zeng (Hangzhou, China), Dong Jiang (Hangzhou, China), Jucai Lin (Hangzhou, China), Jun Yin (Hangzhou, China) and Cheng Fang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A linear model (LM) prediction method and a coder are disclosed. The method includes dividing a current coding block into at least two sub-blocks; for each of the sub-blocks, constructing a linear model, wherein parameters of the linear model are calculated by using pixel values of adjacent reconstructed pix...