US Patent Issued to British Broadcasting on March 24 for "Combined intra-prediction mode for bitstream decoder" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,676, issued on March 24, was assigned to British Broadcasting Corp. (London).

"Combined intra-prediction mode for bitstream decoder" was invented by Saverio Blasi (London), Andre Seixas Dias (London) and Gosala Kulupana (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method of decoding in a decoder 1 a bitstream representing an image comprising: receiving the bitstream; for each block in the bitstream: forming predictions; and adding a respective prediction to each residual sample to form a reconstructed image sample; providing a reconstructed image from the reconstructed image samples; and outputting the r...