US Patent Issued to Tencent America on Nov. 25 for "Weight derivation for geometric partitioning mode" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,716, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Weight derivation for geometric partitioning mode" was invented by Lien-Fei Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Xiang Li (Saratoga, Calif.), Guichun Li (San Jose, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method of video decoding at a video decoder, a bitstream of a coded video associated with a current coding block that is partitioned into a first part and a second part along a partition edge for prediction in a geometric partitioning mode is received. A weight index at a sample position of the current coding block is determined ba...