US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on June 30 for "Decoder derived cross component prediction in video coding" (Taiwanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,806, issued on June 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Decoder derived cross component prediction in video coding" was invented by Yao-Jen Chang (San Diego), Po-Han Lin (Taipei, Taiwan), Vadim Seregin (San Diego), Jian-Liang Lin (Su'ao Township, Taiwan) and Marta Karczewicz (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video decoder may be configured to receive a first instance of a flag for a first block, with a first value for the flag indicating that a cross-component prediction (CCP) mode is derived without signaling and a second value for the flag indicating that the CCP mode is signaled; in response to determining th...