US Patent Issued to SK TELECOM on Jan. 20 for "Video coding method deriving bidirectional prediction weight index" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,980, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SK TELECOM Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Video coding method deriving bidirectional prediction weight index" was invented by Jae Il Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Sun Young Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Jae Seob Shin (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for deriving a bidirectional prediction weight index of a constructed candidate included in an affine merge candidate list. The method comprises: determining whether a plurality of target control points are available from among control points set for a current block; if the target control points are available, the...