ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,281, issued on May 26, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Derived motion vector with single reference signaling" was invented by Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.), Liang Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to deriving a motion vector difference with reference signaling for coding and/or decoding a video stream. There may be a syntax flag or value indicating a particular inter coded mode. Based on the inter coded mode, a first motion vector for a current reference frame is used to derive a second motion vector pointing to a different reference f...