US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on May 13 for "Systems and methods for blending block sections in a partition-based prediction mode" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,889, issued on May 13, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for blending block sections in a partition-based prediction 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: "The various implementations described herein include methods and systems for encoding and decoding video. In one aspect, a method of video decoding includes receiving video data that includes a first block from a bitstream, where the first block is encoded using a first parti...