US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Jan. 20 for "Interaction between bi-prediction local illumination compensation and decoder side motion vector refinement in video coding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,998, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Interaction between bi-prediction local illumination compensation and decoder side motion vector refinement in video coding" was invented by Yan Zhang (San Diego), Han Huang (San Diego), Vadim Seregin (San Diego) and Marta Karczewicz (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video encoder and video decoder are configured to code a block of video data using a merge candidate list that includes one or more bi-predicted merge candidates, determine to apply only one of a decoder side motion vector refinement (DMVR) mode or a local illumination compensation (LIC) mode t...