ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,976, issued on July 8, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Hybrid inter bi-prediction in video coding" was invented by Zhi Zhang (Munich), 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: "A video decoder can be configured to determine that a current block of the video data is coded in a bi-prediction inter mode; receive a first syntax element identifying a motion vector predictor from a first candidate list of motion vector predictors; receive a second syntax element identifying a motion vector difference; determine a first motion vector ...