US Patent Issued to Tencent America on July 21 for "Affine MMVD refinement methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,759, issued on July 21, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Affine MMVD refinement methods" was invented by Guichun Li (San Jose, Calif.), Xiang Li (Saratoga, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. In some examples, an apparatus for video decoding includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry extracts (e.g., parses), from a bitstream, affine merge with motion vector difference (MMVD) candidate information for a current block in a current picture. The processing circuitry determines a fi...