ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,737, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"Video content distribution methods" was invented by Minhua Zhou (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for parsing friendly and error resilient merge flag coding in video coding are provided. In some methods, in contrast to merging candidate list size dependent coding of the merge flag in the prior art, a merge flag is always encoded in the encoded bit stream for each inter-predicted prediction unit (PU) that is not encoded using skip mode. In some methods, in contrast to the prior art that allowed the merging candidate list to be empty...