US Patent Issued to Tencent America on Aug. 25 for "Signaling of number of merge candidates" (South Korean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,087, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Signaling of number of merge candidates" was invented by Ling Li (Seoul, South Korea), Xiang Li (Saratoga, Calif.), Guichun Li (San Jose, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bitstream that includes visual media data is processed according to a format rule. The bitstream includes coding information for a current picture, the coding information indicating that a geometric merge mode is enabled for a coding level higher than a picture level of the current picture and a maximum number of merge candidates satisfies a condi...