US Patent Issued to Tencent America on May 20 for "Signaling a maximum number of merge motion vector prediction candidates for inter prediction" (South Korean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,421, issued on May 20, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Signaling a maximum number of merge motion vector prediction candidates for inter prediction" was invented by Ling Li (Seoul, South Korea), Xiang Li (Saratoga, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for video encoding includes generating a first syntax element indicating a maximum number of merge motion vector prediction (MVP) candidates, and encoding the first syntax element at a first coding level in a coded video bitstream, the first coding level being higher than a picture parameter set (PPS) level. The video e...