US Patent Issued to INTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS on Oct. 20 for "Generalized bi-prediction for video coding with reduced coding complexity" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,868, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to INTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS INC. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Generalized bi-prediction for video coding with reduced coding complexity" was invented by Yan Zhang (San Diego), Xiaoyu Xiu (San Diego), Yuwen He (San Diego) and Yan Ye (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Exemplary embodiments include systems and methods for coding a video comprising a plurality of pictures including a current picture, a first reference picture, and a second reference picture, where each picture includes a plurality of blocks. In one method, for at least a current block in the current picture, a number of available bi-pr...