US Patent Issued to Alibaba Group Holding on Aug. 26 for "On block level bi-prediction with weighted averaging" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,798, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"On block level bi-prediction with weighted averaging" was invented by Yan Ye (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Video encoding and decoding techniques for bi-prediction with weighted averaging are disclosed. According to certain embodiments, a computer-implemented video signaling method includes signaling, by a processor to a video decoder, a bitstream including weight information used for prediction of a coding unit (CU). The weight information indicates: if weighted prediction is enabled for a bi-prediction mode of the...