ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,240, issued on May 26, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Encoder, a decoder and corresponding methods of chroma intra mode derivation" was invented by Biao Wang (Shenzhen, China), Semih Esenlik (Munich), Anand Meher Kotra (Munich), Han Gao (Shenzhen, China) and Elena Alexandrovna Alshina (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of coding implemented by a decoding device, comprising obtaining a video bitstream; decoding the video bitstream to obtain an initial intra prediction mode value for chroma component of a current coding block; determining whether a ratio between a width for luma component ...