US Patent Issued to Tencent America on Dec. 30 for "Method and apparatus for signaling for compound inter prediction modes" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,326, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for signaling for compound inter prediction modes" was invented by Liang Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.), Han Gao (San Diego) 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 signaling of compound inter prediction modes. For example, a correlation between a use of optical flow refinement and various compound inter prediction modes is explored to design example schemes for signaling an optical flow refineme...