US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Aug. 11 for "Enhanced intra prediction with bilateral filter" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,044, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Enhanced intra prediction with bilateral filter" was invented by Roman Chernyak (Santa Clara, Calif.), Biao Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Lien-Fei Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.), Motong Xu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Yonguk Yoon (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of video decoding includes receiving a bitstream that comprises coded information of one or more pictures. The coded information indicates an intra prediction of a current block. The method also includes: enabling a reference sa...