ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,576, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).
"Methods for constructing a merge candidate list" was invented by Zhao Wang (Beijing), Yan Ye (San Mateo, Calif.) and Jiancong Luo (San Mateo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video processing method is provided. The method includes inserting a set of spatial merge candidates to a first merge candidate list of a coding block, wherein the first merge candidate list is constructed by: adding a top neighboring block B1 to the first merge candidate list when the top neighboring block B1 is available; adding a left neighboring block...