ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,583, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to ZHEJIANG DAHUA TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Hangzhou, China).

"Systems and methods for predicting coding units in images" 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 image coding system is provided. The system may determine a coding unit in an image and divide the coding unit into a plurality of coding sub-units. For at least one coding sub-unit of the plurality of coding sub-units, the system may determine multiple reference lines of the at least ...