ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,641, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"MMVD candidate refinement methods" was invented by Guichun Li (San Jose, Calif.), Xiang Li (Saratoga, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. In some examples, an apparatus for video decoding includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry extracts, from a bitstream, merge with motion vector difference (MMVD) candidate information for a current block in a current picture. The processing circuitry generates a first MV refinement ...