US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Oct. 21 for "Method and apparatus for asymmetric blending of predictions of partitioned pictures" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,406, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for asymmetric blending of predictions of partitioned pictures" was invented by Han Gao (San Diego), Xin Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Lien-fei Chen (San Jose, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decoding device is provided for decoding of a bitstream, and more specifically for predicting a picture area of an input image for decoding. The picture area has been divided into at least first and second parts by a partitioning boundary, and the pixels of each part are predicted according to suitable measur...