US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on April 22 for "Implicit masked blending mode improvement with high level syntax" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,375, issued on April 22, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Implicit masked blending mode improvement with high level syntax" was invented by Han Gao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xin Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Liang Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jing Ye (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system receives a video bitstream comprising a current picture that includes a first block. The system determines that the first block is encoded using a first reference block and a second reference block. The system identifies a high-level syntax (HLS) flag in the video bitstream t...