ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,709, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Weighted prediction mechanism" was invented by Junhua Hou (Shanghai), Zhihong Yu (Beijing), Yesheng Xu (Shanghai), Hongbo Lv (Shanghai) and Jiangming Wu (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus to facilitate encoding video data is disclosed. The apparatus includes rendering logic to render graphics video data as frame data, fade extractor logic to extract fade effects data to be applied to the frame data to generate frame auxiliary metadata comprising the fade effects data, weighted prediction logic to receive the frame data and the auxiliary met...