ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,334, issued on July 15, was assigned to BEIJING DAJIA INTERNET INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"System and method for signaling of motion merge modes in video coding" was invented by Yi-Wen Chen (San Diego) and Xianglin Wang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a decoding method. The method includes acquiring, from a decoder, a regular merge flag for a coding unit (CU) that is coded as merge mode and merge related modes; when the regular merge flag is one, indicating that a regular merge mode or merge mode with motion vector differences (MMVD) is used by the CU, constructing a single ...