ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,039, issued on April 21, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Temporal motion vector predictor candidates search" was invented by Liang Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Han Gao (San Diego), Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates generally to video coding and particularly to methods and systems for determination of temporal motion vector predictor (TMVP) candidates for inter-prediction in video coding. The disclosed methods, for example, include restricting the number of TMVP candidates in a motion vector predictor (MVP) list and provide various ...