ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,107, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"MVD scaling for joint MVD coding" was invented by Liang Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), 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 derivation and scaling of motion vector difference (MVD) in joint MVD scaling for compound inter-prediction of video blocks, and the signaling therefor. In one example implementations, a method and video device for processing a video block of a video stream is disclosed. For example, the meth...