US Patent Issued to Tencent America on Sept. 23 for "Zero motion vector in adaptive reordering of merge candidates (ARMC)" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,642, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Zero motion vector in adaptive reordering of merge candidates (ARMC)" was invented by Lien-Fei Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), 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 a method and an apparatus including processing circuitry that adds merge candidates into a merge candidate list of a current block in a current picture. The merge candidates include available merge candidates including one or more of spatial motion vector predictors (MVP(s)), tempor...