US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on June 2 for "Setting a value range of a number of sub-block based merge candidates" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,589, issued on June 2, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Setting a value range of a number of sub-block based merge candidates" was invented by Guichun Li (San Jose, Calif.), Xiang Li (Saratoga, Calif.), Xiaozhong Xu (State College, Pa.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for video encoding includes determining a parameter corresponding to the coded video bitstream based on a calculated maximum number of candidates. The parameter is in a range from 0 to 5-sps_sbtmvp_enabled_flag, where the sps_sbtmvp_enabled_flag equal to 1 specifies that subblock based temporal motion vector...