ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,102, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).
"Device and method for coding video data" was invented by Chih-Yuan Chen (Taipei, Taiwan), Chih-Yu Teng (Taipei, Taiwan) and Yu-Chiao Yang (Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of encoding video data is provided. The method determines a block unit of an image frame of the video data. The method determines, for the block unit, a first merge candidate list including multiple merge candidates, and identifies multiple merge subgroups from the first merge candidate list. The method determines multiple first cost values each corresponding to one of the mer...