US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Dec. 16 for "Systems and methods for warp sample selection and grouping" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,076, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for warp sample selection and grouping" was invented by Han Gao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xin Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Liang Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The various embodiments described herein include methods and systems for encoding and decoding video. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining video data that includes a plurality of blocks, including a first block, where the video data is to be coded in a warp mode or a motion mode. The method further includes identifying two...