ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,708, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Adaptive local reference range" was invented by Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.), Xiaozhong Xu (State College, Pa.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide a method, an apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for video decoding. The apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to reconstruct an area in a block in a current picture from a coded video bitstream. The block includes one or more coding blocks (CBs) in the current picture. After the reconstructing, the processing...