US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on July 14 for "Wide angular intra prediction" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,117, issued on July 14, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Wide angular intra prediction" was invented by Liang Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Madhu Peringassery Krishnan (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xin Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jing Ye (Palo Alto, Calif.), Han Gao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Yushin Cho (Palo Alto, Calif.), Tianqi Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method of video decoding includes receiving a video bitstream comprising a plurality of blocks, including a current block. The method also includes identifying a set of intra prediction angles for the curre...