US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Jan. 27 for "Bilateral matching based scaling factor derivation for JMVD" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,972, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Bilateral matching based scaling factor derivation for JMVD" was invented by Liang Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xin Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for video coding includes obtaining a coding block of video data, determining whether a joint coding of motion vector difference (JMVD) is used for predicting the coding block, obtaining, based on determining that the JMVD is used for predicting the coding block, a list of scaling factors and the JMVD from the video bitstream, deriving a predicted...