ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,119, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Vector difference candidate list construction" was invented by Zhi Zhang (Munich), Pavel Nikitin (Munich), 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 method of decoding video data includes determining a vector predictor for a current block; determining a first set of vector difference candidates based on a first pel-interval, the first pel-interval defining a first distance between consecutive vector difference candidates in the first set of vector difference candidates starting with the vector pr...