US Patent Issued to Tencent America on Oct. 27 for "Chain-based motion vector and chain-based motion vector predictor derivation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,180, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Chain-based motion vector and chain-based motion vector predictor derivation" was invented by Lien-Fei Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.), Biao Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Tianqi Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Roman Chernyak (Santa Clara, Calif.), Motong Xu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Yifan Wang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Ziyue Xiang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.) and Yonguk Yoon (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for video decoding includes receiving coded information of a current block indicating inter prediction for the current block. Wheth...