US Patent Issued to Tencent America on Sept. 23 for "Context design for coding and decoding syntax elements in inter prediction modes" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,570, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Context design for coding and decoding syntax elements in inter prediction modes" was invented by Han Gao (San Diego), Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.), Liang Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for determining contexts for coding and decoding various syntax elements of a video stream in inter prediction modes are described. The methods and systems enable a limitation on numbers of possible coding contexts for syntax elements related to the inter prediction mode, and a selection of codi...