ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,965, issued on July 7, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Using local illumination compensation and delta motion vector refinement together in video coding" was invented by Yan Zhang (San Diego), Vadim Seregin (San Diego), Hongtao Wang (San Diego), Zhi Zhang (Munich), Chun-Chi Chen (San Diego), Han Huang (San Diego) and Marta Karczewicz (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example devices, methods, and computer-readable media are described. An example method includes determining to decode a current block of the video data using a merge mode. The example method includes determining, for the current block, to apply local i...