ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,354, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Joint coding for adaptive motion vector difference resolution" was invented by Liang Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates generally to video coding and particularly to methods and systems for providing signaling schemes for jointly coding of motion vector difference with adaptive resolution in compound-reference inter-prediction. An example method for processing a current video block of a video stream is disclosed. The method includes receiving the vid...