ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,122, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Implicit masked blending mode improvement" was invented by Han Gao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xin Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Liang Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Shan Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Jing Ye (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system receives a video bitstream comprising a current picture and a current block within the current picture. The current block is encoded using information from a first reference block and a second reference block. When a portion of the current block corresponds to a first area that is within reference ...