US Patent Issued to MediaTek on Sept. 23 for "Method and apparatus for multiple hypothesis prediction in video coding system" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,597, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Method and apparatus for multiple hypothesis prediction in video coding system" was invented by Man-Shu Chiang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chih-Wei Hsu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for predictive coding. According to the method, combined prediction members are determined, where each of the combined prediction member includes a weighted sum of a first prediction candidate and a second prediction candidate using a target weighting selected from a weighting set. Boundary matching costs associated with the combined prediction m...