US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on May 13 for "Method and apparatus of harmonizing triangular merge mode with weighted prediction" (Chinese, Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,857, issued on May 13, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus of harmonizing triangular merge mode with weighted prediction" was invented by Huanbang Chen (Shenzhen, China), Haitao Yang (Shenzhen, China), Alexey Konstantinovich Filippov (Moscow) and Vasily Alexeevich Rufitskiy (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to moving picture processing, and in particular, to cases where non-rectangular partitioning modes are used for inter-prediction in a combination with weighted prediction (WP) for coding fades. Non-rectangular modes refer to those inter-predicti...