US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on July 7 for "Combined intra and inter prediction mode" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,967, issued on July 7, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Combined intra and inter prediction mode" was invented by Liang Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xin Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Han Gao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jing Ye (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 first block that is encoded using a combined intra inter prediction (CIP) mode. The method also includes identifying an intra prediction mode for the first block, and identifying an inter prediction mode...