US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Oct. 27 for "Methods and devices for enhancing block adaptive weighted prediction" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,176, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Methods and devices for enhancing block adaptive weighted prediction" was invented by Liang Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.), Han Gao (San Diego), Jing Ye (San Jose, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates generally to video coding/decoding and particularly for enhancing block adaptive weighted prediction (BAWP). One method includes receiving a coded video bitstream; identifying, from the coded video bitstream, a motion vector corresponding to a reference block associated with th...