US Patent Issued to MediaTek on Aug. 11 for "Prediction refinement with convolution model" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,040, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Prediction refinement with convolution model" was invented by Chia-Ming Tsai (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Man-Shu Chiang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Chih-Wei Hsu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Ching-Yeh Chen (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Tzu-Der Chuang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for deriving and using a cross component model to refine intra- or inter-prediction when encoding or decoding a block of pixels is provided. A video coder receives data for the block of pixels to be encoded or decoded as a current block of a current picture of a vid...