US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on June 23 for "Most probable mode list generation scheme" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,012, issued on June 23, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Most probable mode list generation scheme" was invented by Liang Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), 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 signaling an intra prediction mode used to encode a current block in an encoded video bitstream using at least one processor includes determining a plurality of candidate intra prediction modes; generating a most probable mode (MPM) list using the plurality of candidate intra prediction modes; signaling a reference line index indicating a re...