US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on March 3 for "Bi-prediction with CU level weight (BCW)" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,241, issued on March 3, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Bi-prediction with CU level weight (BCW)" was invented by Lien-Fei Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.), Xiaozhong Xu (State College, Pa.), Roman Chernyak (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of decoding includes calculating a first cost value associated with a first sign value and a second cost value associated with a second sign value for a difference weighted bi-prediction, determining a selected sign value from the first sign value and the second sign value according to the first c...