US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on May 20 for "Adaptively coding motion information for multiple hypothesis prediction for video coding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,355, issued on May 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Adaptively coding motion information for multiple hypothesis prediction for video coding" was invented by 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: generate a first prediction block for a current block of video data using a base inter-prediction mode; code a merge mode syntax element for a second prediction block representing an additional prediction hypothesis, the merge mode syntax element indicating whether m...