US Patent Issued to Tencent America on March 3 for "Geometry partition mode and merge mode with motion vector difference signaling" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,215, issued on March 3, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Geometry partition mode and merge mode with motion vector difference signaling" 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: "In a method of encoding performed in an encoder, a block is partitioned into a first part and a second part based on a geometry partition mode (GPM). Inter prediction is performed on the first part and the second part of the block based on merge mode with motion vector difference (MMVD). Whether a first motion vector (MV) for the first part...