ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,823, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).
"Inter prediction method and apparatus" was invented by Xu Chen (Shenzhen, China) and Jianhua Zheng (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for inter prediction are disclosed. The method comprises: constructing a merging candidate list of a current picture block; when a number of merging candidates in the merging candidate list is less than a maximum number of candidates minus N, adding at least one history-based motion vector predictor (HMVP) candidate to the merging candidate list to obtain a new merging candidat...