ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,164, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co. Ltd. (Beijing).
"Method and apparatus for DIMD position dependent blending" was invented by Pierre Andrivon (Beijing) and Fabrice Leleannec (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of deriving a Decoder-side Intra Mode Derivation (DIMD) predictor for respective samples of a coding unit (CU) of a picture, includes: selecting one or more Intra Prediction Modes (IPMs) in a template area adjacent to the CU; for each sample of the CU, determining, dependent on a distance of the sample of the CU to the template area, blending weights for blending at least th...