ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,705, issued on July 29, was assigned to BEIJING DAJIA INTERNET INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"System and method for signaling of motion merge modes in video coding" was invented by Yi-Wen Chen (San Diego) and Xianglin Wang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method for video encoding including: signaling a regular merge flag for a coding unit (CU) that is coded as merge mode and merge related modes; when the regular merge flag is signaled as one, indicating that a regular merge mode or merge mode with motion vector differences (MMVD) is used by the CU, constructing a motion vecto...