ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,402, issued on June 9, was assigned to ARRIS Enterprises LLC (Horsham, Pa.).

"Constrained position dependent intra prediction combination (PDPC)" was invented by Krit Panusopone (San Diego), Seungwook Hong (San Diego) and Limin Wang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A second level intra prediction mode can be combined with one or more of sixty-seven JVET intra prediction modes during encoding of a coding unit in a video bitstream. Embodiments include making a position dependent intra prediction combination (PDPC) mode available as the second level intra prediction mode. In embodiments, when a PDPC (position dependent intra pre...