US Patent Issued to Tencent America on Jan. 27 for "Block level adaptive weighted prediction with multiple scaling factors" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,964, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Block level adaptive weighted prediction with multiple scaling factors" was invented by Jing Ye (San Jose, Calif.), Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.), Liang Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Han Gao (San Diego) 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 prediction using multiple scaling factors and multiple samples. One method includes receiving a video bitstream comprising a current block and a reference block, the reference block being used for predicting the current bloc...