ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,623, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"AMVP-merge mode with SBTMVP" was invented by Lien-Fei Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.), Roman Chernyak (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xiaozhong Xu (State College, Pa.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processing circuitry receives a coded video bitstream comprising coded information of a current block in a current picture, the coded information is indicative of an AMVP-merge mode, the AMVP-merge mode uses a bi-directional predictor including an AMVP predictor in a first direction and a merge predictor in a second ...