ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,333, issued on April 22, was assigned to ARRIS Enterprises LLC (Suwanee, Ga.).

"Simplified processing of weighted prediction syntax and semantics using a bit depth variable for high precision data" was invented by Yue Yu (San Diego) and Limin Wang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Particular embodiments may remove a condition check in the semantics for checking a high-precision data flag. This simplifies the semantics used in the encoding and decoding process. In this case, even if the high-precision data flag is not set, the value of the weighted prediction syntax element is set by the BitDepth variable. However, even if the ...