ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,722, issued on May 6, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Method and apparatus for video coding" was invented by Jing Ye (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 methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. An apparatus for video decoding includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry checks an inferable condition for a flag of a specific prediction mode for a current block before parsing the flag of the specific prediction mode for the current block from a coded video bitstream. The specific p...