ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,517, issued on June 17, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Taiwan).
"Shared architecture for multiple video coding modes" was invented by Cheng-Yen Chuang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Man-Shu Chiang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yu-Ling Hsiao (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chun-Chia Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chih-Wei Hsu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Tzu-Der Chuang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ching-Yeh Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yu-Wen Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video encoder receives raw pixel data to be encoded as a current block of a current picture of a video into a bitstream. The video encoder identifies multiple candidate bi-prediction positions for the cur...