US Patent Issued to MediaTek on Feb. 17 for "Method and apparatus of combined prediction in video coding system" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,687, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Method and apparatus of combined prediction in video coding system" was invented by Man-Shu Chiang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chih-Wei Hsu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for video coding using combined prediction. According to this method, a combined predictor is derived, wherein the combined predictor comprises a weighted combination of one or more source terms. One or more weightings for the weighted combination of one or more source terms are derived using a regression technique based on relationship estimation based on one...