MUMBAI, India, July 5 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517054793 A) filed by Tencent America Llc, Palo Alto, U.S.A., on June 6, for 'implicit masked blending mode improvement with high level syntax.'

Inventor(s) include Gao, Han; Zhao, Xin; Zhao, Liang; Ye, Jing; and Liu, Shan.

The application for the patent was published on July 4, under issue no. 27/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A computing system receives a video bitstream comprising a current picture that includes a first block. The system determines that the first block is encoded using a first reference block and a second reference block. The system identifies a high-level syntax (HLS) flag in the ...