US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on June 23 for "Further improved improved context design for prediction mode and CBF" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,008, issued on June 23, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Further improved improved context design for prediction mode and CBF" was invented by Xin Zhao (San Diego), Xiang Li (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling intra-inter prediction for decoding or encoding of a video sequence, is performed by at least one processor. The method includes determining whether one or more neighboring blocks in a video sequence is coded by an intra prediction mode, coding a prediction mode flag of a current block by a first context based on determining that at l...