US Patent Issued to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS on Feb. 17 for "Intra prediction method and decoder" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,691, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Intra prediction method and decoder" was invented by Zhihuang Xie (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intra prediction method includes the following. A first intra prediction mode and a second intra prediction mode for the current block are determined according to amplitude values of N intra prediction modes. A weighted blending condition for the current block is determined according to an amplitude value of the first intra prediction mode and an amplitude value of the second intra prediction mode. A target...