US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Feb. 10 for "Multiple hypothesis prediction with template matching in video coding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,710, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Multiple hypothesis prediction with template matching in video coding" was invented by Yan Zhang (San Diego), Han Huang (San Diego), Vadim Seregin (San Diego) and Marta Karczewicz (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of encoding or decoding video data includes determining, for a multiple hypothesis prediction (MHP) process, a plurality of prediction templates based on a plurality of weights; comparing the plurality of prediction templates to a current template of a current block; determining a weight from the plurality of weights based on the comparing ...