US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Dec. 23 for "Method and apparatus for motion vector coding" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,875, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for motion vector coding" was invented by Guichun Li (San Jose, Calif.), Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.), Lien-Fei Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processing circuitry receives coded information of a motion vector difference (MVD). The processing circuitry calculates cost values associated with value combinations for a plurality of bits in coding bits of the MVD, at least one of the plurality of bits is a bit in a codeword for indicating a magnitude for the MVD. The processing circuit...