US Patent Issued to Tencent America on Oct. 27 for "Adjustment based local illumination compensation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,161, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Adjustment based local illumination compensation" was invented by Lien-Fei Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xiang Li (Saratoga, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for video decoding includes decoding prediction information of a current block indicating that local illumination compensation (LIC) is applied to the current block and an adjustment parameter used to adjust at least one parameter of the LIC. The method includes determining at least one of (i) a final scaling parameter Alphaf of the current block based on t...