ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,204, issued on March 3, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Multi-hypothesis cross component prediction different model" 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 coding video. In one aspect, a video bitstream includes a current coding block of an image frame and signals a first syntax element for a multi-hypothesis cross-component prediction (MH-CCP) mode. A computing system determi...