US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Feb. 24 for "Methods and devices for enhancing block adaptive weighted prediction with block vector" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,216, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Methods and devices for enhancing block adaptive weighted prediction with block vector" was invented by Liang Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.), Biao Wang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Han Gao (San Diego), Jing Ye (San Jose, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates generally to video coding/decoding and particularly for enhancing block adaptive weighted prediction (BAWP) with a block vector. One method includes receiving a coded video bitstream; identifying, from the coded video bitstream...