US Patent Issued to Tencent America on Aug. 5 for "Context design for coding and decoding syntax elements in inter prediction modes" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,018, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Context design for coding and decoding syntax elements in inter prediction modes" was invented by Han Gao (San Diego), Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.), Liang Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates generally to video coding and particularly to methods and systems for determining context for coding and decoding various syntax elements of a video stream in inter prediction modes. Various example implementations are disclosed for limiting numbers of possible coding contexts for syntax element...