US Patent Issued to InterDigital VC Holdings on Oct. 6 for "Combined inter and intra prediction" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,820, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to InterDigital VC Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Combined inter and intra prediction" was invented by Xiaoyu Xiu (San Diego), Yuwen He (San Diego) and Jiancong Luo (Skillman, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed for a combined inter and intra prediction. A video coding device may receive a motion vector difference (MMVD) mode indication that indicates whether MMVD mode is used to generate inter prediction of a coding unit (CU). The video coding device may receive a combined inter merge/intra prediction (CIIP) indication, for example, when the...