ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,964, issued on July 7, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).
"Method and apparatus for blending prediction in video coding system" was invented by Man-Shu Chiang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Chih-Wei Hsu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for video coding. A current block is partitioned into a first region and a second region along a partition line. A blending region around the partition line is determined, where the blending region includes a first blending region having first pixels in the first region defined by the partition line and distance_1 and a second blending region hav...