US Patent Issued to MediaTek on Feb. 10 for "Candidate reordering for merge mode with motion vector difference" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,743, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Candidate reordering for merge mode with motion vector difference" was invented by Chih-Yao Chiu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chun-Chia Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chih-Wei Hsu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ching-Yeh Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Tzu-Der Chuang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yu-Wen Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video coding system that reorders prediction candidates is provided. A video coder receives data for a block of pixels to be encoded or decoded as a current block of a current picture of a video. The video coder identifies possible candidate predictio...