ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,166, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to LEMON INC. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Motion candidate derivation with search order and coding mode" was invented by Na Zhang (Beijing), Kai Zhang (Los Angeles), Hongbin Liu (Beijing), Li Zhang (Los Angeles) and Yue Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example implementations include methods, apparatuses and computer storage media for video processing. One example method comprises determining, during a conversion between a current video block of a video and a bitstream of the video, a motion candidate for the current video block; refining the motion candidate by performing a local s...