US Patent Issued to Tencent America on July 8 for "Derivation of triangular prediction information" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,016, issued on July 8, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Derivation of triangular prediction information" was invented by Meng Xu (San Jose, Calif.), Xiang Li (Saratoga, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for video decoding includes processing circuitry configured to receive a splitting direction syntax element, a first merge triangle index syntax element, and a second merge triangle index syntax element that are associated with a coding block of a picture. The coding block is coded according to a triangular prediction mode and partitioned into a first prediction ...