ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,756, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Merge with motion vector difference" was invented by Lien-Fei Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Guichun Li (San Jose, Calif.), Xin Zhao (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, an apparatus for video decoding includes receiving circuitry and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry receives coded information of a current block in a current picture from a coded video bitstream. The coded information includes a syntax element with a value indicative of a merge with motion vector difference (MMVD) m...