US Patent Issued to Sharp on June 30 for "Device and method for decoding video data by reconstructing chroma block unit based on bi-predictive-IBC-based candidate" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,803, issued on June 30, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"Device and method for decoding video data by reconstructing chroma block unit based on bi-predictive-IBC-based candidate" was invented by Chih-Yu Teng (Taipei, Taiwan) and Yu-Chiao Yang (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of decoding video data performed by an electronic device is provided. The method receives the video data and determines, from a current frame included in the video data, a chroma block unit and a luma reconstruction block. The luma reconstruction block is collocated with the chroma block unit and reconstructed in bi-predicti...