US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on May 27 for "Methods for adaptive signaling of maximum number of merge candidates in multiple hypothesis prediction" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,832, issued on May 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Methods for adaptive signaling of maximum number of merge candidates in multiple hypothesis prediction" was invented by Han Huang (San Diego), Marta Karczewicz (San Diego) and Vadim Seregin (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example techniques and devices are disclosed for coding video data. An example device includes memory configured to store the video data and one or more processors implemented in circuitry and communicatively coupled to the memory. The one or more processors are configured to determine that multiple-hypothesis prediction (MHP) is enabled. T...