US Patent Issued to Tencent America on Aug. 5 for "Methods and apparatuses for video coding" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,086, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatuses for video coding" was invented by Meng Xu (San Jose, Calif.), Xiang Li (Saratoga, Calif.), Xiaozhong Xu (State College, Pa.), Guichun Li (Milpitas, Calif.), Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.) and Xin Zhao (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. An apparatus for video decoding includes processing circuitry that decodes prediction information for a current block in a current coded picture. The prediction information indicates a motion vector p...