US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Aug. 4 for "Rules for intra-picture prediction modes when wavefront parallel processing is enabled" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,249, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Rules for intra-picture prediction modes when wavefront parallel processing is enabled" was invented by Bin Li (Beijing) and Jizheng Xu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various innovations facilitate the use of intra-picture prediction modes such as palette prediction mode, intra block copy mode, intra line copy mode and intra string copy mode by an encoder or decoder when wavefront parallel processing ("WPP") is enabled. For example, for a palette coding/decoding mode, an encoder or decoder predicts a palette for an initial unit in a c...