US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Sept. 9 for "Extension to block adaptive weighted prediction" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,759, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Extension to block adaptive weighted prediction" was invented by Liang Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.), Jing Ye (San Jose, Calif.), Han Gao (San Diego) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates generally to video coding/decoding and particularly for providing extension to block adaptive weighted prediction (BAWP). One method includes receiving a coded video bitstream; determining, based on a syntax element signaled in the coded video bitstream, a prediction mode for predicting the curren...