US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on Jan. 20 for "Enhanced multi-hypothesis prediction" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,996, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Enhanced multi-hypothesis prediction" was invented by Ruoyang Yu (Taby, Sweden), Kenneth Andersson (Gavle, Sweden), Jacob Strom (Stockholm) and Jack Enhorn (Kista, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for processing a current block within a current picture. The processing may include determining whether a second syntax element S1 is present in a coded video bitstream. The processing may include, if the S1 is not present, inferring which one of implicit signaling and explicit signaling is used to signal a second piece ...