US Patent Issued to Tencent America on July 22 for "Adaptive resolution for motion vector difference" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,860, issued on July 22, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Adaptive resolution for motion vector difference" was invented by Liang Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to encoding and decoding of motion vector difference for inter-predicting a video block. An example is disclosed for decoding an inter-predicted video block of a video stream. The method may include determining that a motion vector associated with the inter-predicted video block is encoded as a motion vector difference (MVD) between the motion v...