ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,042, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to BEIJING DAJIA INTERNET INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Planar mode improvement for intra prediction" was invented by Ning Yan (San Diego), Yi-Wen Chen (San Diego), Xiaoyu Xiu (San Diego), Wei Chen (San Diego), Che-Wei Kuo (San Diego), Hong-Jheng Jhu (San Diego), Han Gao (San Diego), Xianglin Wang (San Diego) and Bing Yu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations of the disclosure provide a video processing apparatus and method for performing intra prediction on a video block. The video processing method may include receiving, by a processor, reference samples from a vid...