ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,639, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Method and apparatus for video coding" was invented by Liang Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xin Zhao (San Diego), 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. In some examples, an apparatus for video decoding includes processing circuitry. For example, the processing circuitry decodes prediction information of a current block from a coded video bitstream. The prediction information indicates that a prediction of the current bloc...