US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on March 11 for "Harmonized design for offset based refinement and multiple reference line selection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,401, issued on March 11, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Harmonized design for offset based refinement and multiple reference line selection" 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: "Methods, apparatus, and computer readable storage medium for offset refinement for intra prediction and multiple reference line intra prediction in video decoding. The method includes receiving, by a device, a coded video bitstream for a block. The device includes a memory storing instructions and a processor in communication with t...