ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,223, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Compound prediction for video coding" was invented by Debargha Mukherjee (Cupertino, Calif.), James Bankoski (Los Gatos, Calif.), Yue Chen (Kirkland, Wash.), Yuxin Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Sarah Parker (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generating a compound predictor block includes generating a first predictor block and generating a second predictor block. The first predictor block includes a first pixel and the second predictor block includes a second pixel. The first and the second pixels are located at a same location within the first predi...