US Patent Issued to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS on July 28 for "Picture prediction method, encoder, decoder, and storage medium" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,918, issued on July 28, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Picture prediction method, encoder, decoder, and storage medium" was invented by Yuanfang Yu (Dongguan, China) and Yang Liu (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A picture prediction method, encoder, decoder and storage medium are provided. If a current block uses an MIP mode to determine its intra prediction value, the encoder sets a value of an MIP mode parameter as indicating use of the MIP mode and signals into a bitstream; determines the MIP mode of the current block and signals into the bitstream; determines...