ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,821, issued on June 30, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for adaptive extrapolation filter based intra prediction mode" was invented by Xin Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xiaozhong Xu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Biao Wang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Lien-Fei Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.), Roman Chernyak (Palo Alto, Calif.), Madhu Peringassery Krishnan (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 coding includes receiving a video bitstream for a plurality of blocks. When an extrapolation filter-based intra prediction (EIP) mode is active for a curren...