US Patent Issued to Tencent America on Aug. 4 for "Block based weighting factor for joint motion vector difference coding mode" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,253, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Block based weighting factor for joint motion vector difference coding mode" was invented by Liang Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.), Han Gao (San Diego) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure include a method for video decoding that includes receiving coding information for a block indicating that the block is coded with a joint motion vector difference (JMVD) coding mode and a compound weighted prediction mode and includes scaling factor information of the JMVD coding mode. When the sc...