US Patent Issued to Tencent America on Sept. 8 for "Diversified merge candidate reordering" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,632, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Diversified merge candidate reordering" was invented by Guichun Li (San Jose, Calif.), Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.), Lien-Fei Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In method of video processing in an encoder, a candidate list that comprises a plurality of motion vector (MV) candidates for predicting a current block is determined. The plurality of MV candidates in the candidate list is modified according to a motion information based diversity assessment of the plurality of MV candidates. The modifying the pl...