US Patent Issued to Alibaba Group Holding on March 11 for "Method, device, and system for determining prediction weight for merge mode" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,399, issued on March 11, was assigned to Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Method, device, and system for determining prediction weight for merge mode" was invented by Jie Chen (San Mateo, Calif.), Ru-Ling Liao (San Mateo, Calif.) and Yan Ye (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods for determining prediction weight for sub-block are provided. One exemplary method includes: partitioning a coding unit into a plurality of sub-blocks; determining a weight of a sub-block of the plurality of sub-blocks based on weights of control points, wherein the control points are neighb...