ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,027, issued on June 23, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for blend intra mode coding" was invented by Jing Ye (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xin Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Liang Zhao (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 encoding and decoding video. In one aspect, a method of video decoding includes receiving video data comprising a plurality of blocks, including a first block, from a video bitstream, where the first block is encoded in one of a plural...