US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on July 15 for "Method and apparatus of harmonizing weighted prediction with non-rectangular merge modes" (Chinese, Russian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,277, issued on July 15, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus of harmonizing weighted prediction with non-rectangular merge modes" was invented by Alexey Konstantinovich Filippov (Moscow), Elena Alexandrovna Alshina (Munich), Vasily Alexeevich Rufitskiy (Moscow), Huanbang Chen (Shenzhen, China) and Haitao Yang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inter prediction method includes determining whether a non-rectangular inter prediction mode is allowed for a group of blocks; obtaining one or more inter prediction mode parameters and weighted prediction parameters for the grou...