ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,339, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Merge candidate reordering in 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: "A video coder is configured to construct a merge candidate list of merge candidates, wherein the merge candidate list has N1 candidates, N1 being a positive integer value, reorder the merge candidates in the merge candidate list to create a reordered merge candidate list, reduce the reordered merge candidate list to create an output merge candidate list, wherein the output merge candidate list ha...