US Patent Issued to OP Solutions on Feb. 25 for "Methods and systems for constructing merge candidate list including adding a non-adjacent diagonal spatial merge candidate" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,315, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to OP Solutions LLC (Amherst, Mass.).

"Methods and systems for constructing merge candidate list including adding a non-adjacent diagonal spatial merge candidate" was invented by Hari Kalva (Boca Raton, Fla.), Borivoje Furht (Boca Raton, Fla.) and Velibor Adzic (Boca Raton, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decoder includes circuitry configured to receive a bitstream, determine whether a merge mode is enabled for a block, construct a merge candidate list including adding a non-adjacent diagonal spatial candidate to the merge candidate list, and reconstruct pixel data of the block and using the...