US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on July 15 for "MMVD merge mode with asymmetric motion vector difference" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,306, issued on July 15, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"MMVD merge mode with asymmetric motion vector difference" was invented by Chun-Chi Chen (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: "An example device for decoding video data includes one or more processors configured to determine merge mode information for a current block, the merge mode information indicating that motion information for a current block is to be predicted using a first predictor motion vector and a second predictor motion vector; determine a first motion vector differenc...