ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,450, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to InterDigital VC Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Bi-prediction for video coding" was invented by Yuwen He (San Diego), Jiancong Luo (Skillman, N.J.), Xiaoyu Xiu (San Diego) and Yan Ye (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and instrumentalities may be provided for determining whether to bypass bi-directional optical flow (BDOF) if BDOF is used in combination with bi-prediction with coding unit (CU) weights (e.g., generalized bi-prediction (GBi)). A coding system may combine coding modes, coding techniques, and/or coding tools. The coding system may include a wireless tran...