US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on July 21 for "Fine-grained intra prediction fusion" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,739, issued on July 21, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Fine-grained intra prediction fusion" was invented by Ziyue Xiang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Biao Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Roman Chernyak (Santa Clara, Calif.), Yonguk Yoon (Palo Alto, Calif.), Lien-Fei Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.), Motong Xu (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure includes methods and apparatuses for video decoding and encoding and a method of processing visual media data. The method for video decoding includes receiving coded information in a bitstream indicating that a current...