US Patent Issued to MediaTek on Sept. 1 for "Cross-component linear model prediction" (Taiwanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,607, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Cross-component linear model prediction" was invented by Chia-Ming Tsai (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Chun-Chia Chen (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Yu-Ling Hsiao (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Man-Shu Chiang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Chih-Wei Hsu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Olena Chubach (San Jose, Calif.), Tzu-Der Chuang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Ching-Yeh Chen (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Yu-Wen Huang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video coding system that uses multiple models to predict chroma samples is provided. The video coding system receives data for a b...