US Patent Issued to BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY on June 30 for "Intra-frame, inter-frame prediction and combined inter-intra prediction mode, video coding method and apparatus" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,822, issued on June 30, was assigned to BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Intra-frame, inter-frame prediction and combined inter-intra prediction mode, video coding method and apparatus" was invented by Jian Zou (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a prediction mode in video coding are provided. A method comprises: determining picture evaluation information of a to-be-encoded current block and a plurality of picture evaluation information of a plurality of encoded reference blocks; calculating, based on the picture evaluation information determined, the correlation between the cu...