ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,065, issued on March 31, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).
"Apparatus, a method and a computer program for video coding and decoding" was invented by Pekka Astola (Tampere, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising: receiving an image block unit of a frame, the image block unit comprising samples in color channels comprising at least one chrominance channel and one luminance channel; reconstructing samples of said luminance channel of the image block unit; determining a reference area for predicting target samples of at least one color channel of the image block unit, wherein said reference are...