US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on June 23 for "Systems and methods for smooth mode predictions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,005, issued on June 23, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for smooth mode predictions" was invented by Xin Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jing Ye (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 that includes a first block from a video bitstream, where the first block is encoded in a smooth mode. The method further includes ide...