US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on July 21 for "Regression model-based intra prediction" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,725, issued on July 21, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Regression model-based intra prediction" was invented by Yonguk Yoon (Palo Alto, Calif.), Lien-Fei Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.), Biao Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Roman Chernyak (Santa Clara, Calif.), Motong Xu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more template predictions are generated for a template of a current block based on one or more prediction modes. The template includes neighboring samples of the current block. Each of the one or more template predictions is generated bas...