ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,154, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).
"Device and method for decoding video data" was invented by Chih-Yuan Chen (Taipei, Taiwan) and Yu-Chiao Yang (Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of decoding video data performed by an electronic device is provided. The method receives the video data and determines a block unit from a current frame included in the video data. The method determines an extrapolation merge list of the block unit. The extrapolation merge list includes multiple extrapolation merge candidates. The method selects an extrapolation reference candidate from the extrapolation m...