ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,945, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Content adaptive segmented prediction" was invented by Xin Zhao (Santa Clara, Calif.), Xiaozhong Xu (State College, Calif.) and Shan Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for content-adaptive segmented prediction mode are provided. A method includes receiving a picture, and encoding the picture, the encoding including predicting a current block of the picture. The predicting includes: segmenting samples within the current block into a plurality of segments including a first segment and a second segment; predicting the...