US Patent Issued to Tencent America on Feb. 17 for "Method and apparatus for extended decoder side motion vector refinement" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,736, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The processing circuitry receives a coded video bitstream, the coded video bitstream includes coded information of a first block, the coded information indicates a use of a decoder side motion refinement (DMVR) on the first block. The first block has a first sample size. The processing circuitry applies an exten...