ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,088, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to BEIJING DAJIA INTERNET INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Motion estimation region for the merge candidates" was invented by Yi-Wen Chen (Beijing), Xiaoyu Xiu (Beijing), Tsung-Chuan Ma (Beijing), Hong-Jheng Jhu (Beijing), Xianglin Wang (Beijing) and Bing Yu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic apparatus performs a method of encoding and decoding video data. The method comprises: receiving, from a bitstream, the video data corresponding to a coding unit; receiving, from the video data, a first syntax element that defines a Motion Estimation Region (MER); receiving a plura...