US Patent Issued to Tencent America on Aug. 4 for "Modified intra prediction fusion" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,250, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Modified intra prediction fusion" was invented by Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.), Guichun Li (San Jose, Calif.), Lien-Fei Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure include methods and apparatuses for video coding. One of the apparatuses includes processing circuitry that receives a current block in a bitstream. The current block is predicted with intra prediction fusion comprising multiple candidate intra prediction modes. The processing circuitry determines a respective candidate predictio...