ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,459, issued on May 19, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for signaling and derivation of quantization parameters for a frame-level interpolation prediction mode" was invented by Xin Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method of video coding includes receiving a video bitstream for a plurality of encoded pictures. The method also includes determining, based on a first indicator, whether a frame-level frame interpolation mode is enabled for an encoded picture and determining, based on a second indicator, whether a prediction filter...