US Patent Issued to MediaTek on July 14 for "Linear model derivation for cross-component prediction by multiple reference lines" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,141, issued on July 14, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Linear model derivation for cross-component prediction by multiple reference lines" was invented by Chia-Ming Tsai (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 video coding method that uses multiple reference lines for cross-component prediction is provided. A video coder receives data for a block of pixels to be encoded or decoded as a current block of a current picture. A video coder derives a linear model based on luma and chro...