US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on Jan. 20 for "Picture prediction method and apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,975, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Picture prediction method and apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Xu Chen (Shenzhen, China), Huanbang Chen (Shenzhen, China), Haitao Yang (Shenzhen, China) and Lian Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application disclose a picture prediction method and apparatus. The picture prediction method includes: determining whether a merge mode is used for a current picture block; when the merge mode is used for the current picture block, determining whether a level-1 merge mode is availa...