ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,798, issued on May 13, was assigned to ZHEJIANG DAHUA TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Hangzhou, China).

"Method, codec device for intra frame and inter frame joint prediction" was invented by Dong Jiang (Hangzhou, China), Jucai Lin (Hangzhou, China), Jun Yin (Hangzhou, China), Feiyang Zeng (Hangzhou, China) and Cheng Fang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intra frame and inter frame joint prediction method is provided. The method includes determining at least one joint intra frame prediction mode of current coding block based on intra frame prediction mode of at least one encoded block of current frame, or determining the at le...