US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on July 15 for "Encoder, a decoder and corresponding methods for merge mode" (Chinese, German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,284, issued on July 15, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Encoder, a decoder and corresponding methods for merge mode" was invented by Timofey Mikhailovich Solovyev (Munich), Semih Esenlik (Munich), Jianle Chen (San Diego), Anand Meher Kotra (Munich), Biao Wang (Shenzhen, China) and Han Gao (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods and devices of processing a block according to a merge candidate list, the method comprising: constructing a first list according to motion information of neighboring blocks of a current block; obtaining prediction information of...