ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,272, issued on May 26, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Local illumination compensation" was invented by Lien-Fei Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Xiaozhong Xu (State College, Pa.), Xin Zhao (Santa Clara, Calif.), Roman Chernyak (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. In some examples, an apparatus for video decoding includes receiving circuitry and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry receives coded information of a current block in a current picture from a coded video bitstream, t...