US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Sept. 23 for "Local illumination compensation for bi-prediction" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,574, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Local illumination compensation for bi-prediction" was invented by Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.), Guichun Li (San Jose, Calif.), Lien-Fei Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processing circuitry receives coded information of a current block indicative of applying LIC on the current block according to at least a first reference block in a first reference picture. The processing circuitry determines, for a sample in the current block, at least a first reference sample in the first reference block, the first...