ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,243, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).
"Apparatus, a method and a computer program for video coding and decoding" was invented by Ramin Ghaznavi Youvalari (Tampere, Finland) and Pekka Astola (Tampere, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising: obtaining an image block unit comprising samples in color channels of one or two chrominance channels and one luminance channel (800); reconstructing samples of said luminance channels of the image block unit (802); predicting samples of at least one color channel of image block unit using a cross-component prediction model based on recons...