US Patent Issued to Tencent America on March 24 for "Affine merge mode with translational motion vectors" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,635, issued on March 24, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Affine merge mode with translational motion vectors" was invented by Guichun Li (San Jose, Calif.), Han Gao (San Diego), Lien-Fei Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Xin Zhao (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, an apparatus for video decoding includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry determines, from a candidate list, a first affine-translational merge candidate for a prediction of a current block in a current picture. The first affine-translational merge candidate provides affine mot...