US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on June 2 for "Adjacent spatial motion vector predictor candidates improvement" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,601, issued on June 2, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Adjacent spatial motion vector predictor candidates improvement" was invented by Han Gao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Liang Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xin Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method of video decoding includes receiving a video bitstream comprising a plurality of blocks, including a current block. The method also includes generating a motion vector prediction (MVP) list for the current block by interleaving respective spatial motion vector predictors (SMVPs) from left and above neighbori...