US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Sept. 9 for "Mode adaptive intra prediction smoothing in video coding" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,718, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Mode adaptive intra prediction smoothing in video coding" was invented by Madhukar Budagavi (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for decoding an encoded video bit stream in a video decoder is provided that includes decoding an intra prediction mode for a block of pixels encoded in the video bit stream, determining, based on the intra prediction mode, whether or not a smoothing filter is to be applied to reference pixel values used for intra prediction of the block, applying a smoothing filter to the reference pixel values when a result of the ...