US Patent Issued to INTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS on June 17 for "Systems and methods for generalized multi-hypothesis prediction for video coding" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,460, issued on June 17, was assigned to INTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS INC. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Systems and methods for generalized multi-hypothesis prediction for video coding" was invented by Chun-Chi Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Xiaoyu Xiu (San Diego), Yuwen He (San Diego) and Yan Ye (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for video coding using generalized bi-prediction. In an exemplary embodiment, to code a current block of a video in a bitstream, a first reference block is selected from a first reference picture and a second reference block is selected from a second reference picture. Each reference bl...