US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on May 19 for "Management of HMVP buffer for parallel coding" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,494, issued on May 19, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Management of HMVP buffer for parallel coding" was invented by Xiaozhong Xu (State College, Pa.), Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.) and Xiang Li (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of video encoding includes, prior to encoding a first tile of s plurality of tiles of a current picture, initializing a shared row buffer that is shared among multiple processor threads associated with the first tile. The method also includes encoding a first unit of a plurality of units in a first row of the first tile by a first processor thread and using a co...