ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,167, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus of high-level signaling for weighted prediction" was invented by Alexey Konstantinovich Filippov (Moscow), Vasily Alexeevich Rufitskiy (Moscow) and Elena Alexandrovna Alshina (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an encoding method, wherein the method comprises: determining syntax elements to be coded, wherein the syntax elements include a reference picture list structure and at least one high-level syntax (HLS) weighted prediction parameters; coding the at least one HLS weighted prediction par...