ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,730, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Adaptive picture resolution rescaling for inter-prediction and display" was invented by Stephan Wenger (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jing Ye (San Jose, Calif.), Byeongdoo Choi (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of decoding a coded picture of a coded video sequence, the method being performed by at least one processor and the method includes decoding, from a first high level syntax structure for a plurality of pictures, a syntax element related to a reference segment resolution, decoding, from a second high ...