ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,392, issued on May 20, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"MMVD signaling improvement" was invented by Xiang Li (Saratoga, Calif.), Lien-Fei Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) 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 for video decoding. The apparatus includes processing circuitry receiving prediction information of a plurality of blocks in a current picture from a coded video bitstream. The processing circuitry determines, based on the prediction information, whether at least one of a decoder-side motion vector refinement (DMVR) mode or a bi-di...