MUMBAI, India, March 15 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202417101513 A) filed by Alibaba (CHINA) Co. Ltd., Zhejiang, China, on Dec. 20, 2024, for 'deriving bi-prediction with coding unit-level weight indices for merge candidates.'
Inventor(s) include Liao, Ru-Ling; Chen, Jie; Ye, Yan; and Li, Xinwei.
The application for the patent was published on March 14, under issue no. 11/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A VVC-standard encoder and a VVC-standard decoder are provided, implementing derivation of a BCW index according to cost values based on template matching. A template matching cost can be calculated for each among a set of possible BCW weight values, and ...