US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on Feb. 24 for "Method and apparatus for video intra prediction involving filtering reference samples" (Russian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,202, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for video intra prediction involving filtering reference samples" was invented by Alexey Konstantinovich Filippov (Moscow), Vasily Alexeevich Rufitskiy (Moscow) and Jianle Chen (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of intra prediction of a block in a picture of a video is disclosed. The method includes obtaining an intra prediction mode of the block; determining whether the intra prediction mode of the block is a wide-angle mode; filtering reference samples for the block based, at least in part, upon determining...