ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,735, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Bilateral matching for compound reference mode" was invented by Liang Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xin Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Han Gao (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The various implementations described herein include methods and systems for coding video. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a current coding block in a current image frame from a video bitstream and determining that the current coding block is to be predicted in a joint motion vector difference (JMVD) mode. The method further incl...