ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,747, issued on July 1, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Implicit masked blending mode" was invented by Han Gao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xin Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Liang Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jing Ye (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system receives a video bitstream that includes a current block and a syntax element indicating that the current block is to be predicted in a blending mode. The current block is encoded using information from first and second reference blocks. When a portion of the current block corresponds to a first area that (i) is...