US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Feb. 24 for "Wide-angle intra prediction for non-square block" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,187, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Wide-angle intra prediction for non-square block" was invented by Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.), Stephan Wenger (Hillsborough, Calif.), Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.), Xiang Li (Saratoga, Calif.) and Liang Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for video encoding in an encoder, a sample of a block that is a non-square block having a rectangular shape is received. The sample of the non-square block is predicted based on a first set of intra prediction directions for the non-square block, the first set of intra prediction directions...