ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,380, issued on April 22, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Weight index inheritance" was invented by Guichun Li (San Jose, Calif.), Xiang Li (Saratoga, Calif.), Xiaozhong Xu (State College, Pa.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video coding. In some examples, an apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry obtains prediction information of a first block in a picture from a coded video bitstream, and generates reconstructed samples of the first block according to the prediction information and one of b...