US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on July 28 for "Extended directional predictions for residual blocks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,905, issued on July 28, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Extended directional predictions for residual blocks" was invented by Tianqi Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Liang Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xin Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jing Ye (Palo Alto, Calif.), Han Gao (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The various implementations described herein include methods and systems for coding video. In one aspect, a method of video decoding includes receiving video data comprising a plurality of blocks, including a first block and a plurality of residual coefficients, from a video...