US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on July 14 for "Intra-prediction apparatus for removing a directional intra-prediction mode from a set of predetermined directional intra-prediction modes" (Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,116, issued on July 14, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Intra-prediction apparatus for removing a directional intra-prediction mode from a set of predetermined directional intra-prediction modes" was invented by Alexey Konstantinovich Filippov (Moscow) and Vasily Alexeevich Rufitskiy (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intra-prediction method includes: determining, by an intra-prediction apparatus, a directional intra-prediction mode for a rectangular video coding block from an extended set of directional intra-prediction modes, wherein the extended set of directional intra-prediction modes incl...