ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,890, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Ofinno LLC (Reston, Va.).
"Mode dependent intra smoothing" was invented by Alexey Konstantinovich Filippov (Khimki, Russia), Vasily Alexeevich Rufitskiy (Vladimir, Russia) and Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoder or decoder projects, in an angular direction, a location of a sample in a block to a point on a reference line between a plurality of reference samples. The encoder or decoder selects a filter coefficient table, from among a plurality of filter coefficient tables, based on the angular direction and a size of the block. The encoder or decoder selects ...