ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,735, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Local warp motion delta mode" was invented by Han Gao (San Diego), Xin Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Liang Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach for encoding/decoding video data, performed by at least one processor, may include: obtaining a coded video bitstream; obtaining a plurality of blocks from the video bitstream, wherein the plurality of blocks comprise a current block and one or more neighboring blocks; determining, based a syntax element in the video bitstream, that a warp delta mode is ...