US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on May 19 for "Enhancement for block adaptive weighted prediction" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,496, issued on May 19, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Enhancement for block adaptive weighted prediction" was invented by Liang Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.), Jing Ye (San Jose, Calif.), Han Gao (San Diego) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates generally to video coding/decoding and particularly for enhancing block adaptive weighted prediction. One method includes receiving a coded video bitstream comprising a current block of a current frame and a first syntax element indicating a prediction mode for the current block, a plurality of sc...