US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on Sept. 8 for "Method and apparatus of signaling the number of candidates for merge mode" (Russian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,627, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus of signaling the number of candidates for merge mode" was invented by Alexey Konstantinovich Filippov (Moscow), Vasily Alexeevich Rufitskiy (Moscow) and Elena Alexandrovna Alshina (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of obtaining a maximum number of geometric partitioning merge mode candidates for video decoding and a video decoding apparatus are disclosed, wherein the method comprises: obtaining a bitstream for a video sequence; obtaining a value of a first indicator according to the bitstream, wherein the first ...