US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on June 17 for "Adaptive blending for geometric partition mode (GPM)" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,502, issued on June 17, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Adaptive blending for geometric partition mode (GPM)" was invented by Lien-Fei Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Guichun Li (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: "Aspects of the disclosure provide a method and an apparatus including processing circuitry that decodes a value of a syntax element that indicates whether a current block is coded with a geometric partition mode (GPM) along a partition edge intersecting the current block. If the value of the syntax element indicates that the current ...