US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Jan. 20 for "Systems and methods for wedge-based prediction mode signaling" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,030, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for wedge-based prediction mode signaling" was invented by Han Gao (Palo Alto, Calif.), 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: "The various embodiments described herein include methods and systems for encoding and decoding video. In one aspect, a method includes receiving video data comprising a plurality of blocks, including a first block. The method also includes obtaining, from the video data, a syntax element value indicating a wedge mode index co...