US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on May 20 for "Converting a bi-predicted merging candidate in a merging candidate list" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,412, issued on May 20, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Converting a bi-predicted merging candidate in a merging candidate list" was invented by Minhua Zhou (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Motion compensation requires a significant amount of memory bandwidth, especially for smaller prediction unit sizes. The worst case bandwidth requirements can occur when bi-predicted 4x8 or 8x4 PUs are used. To reduce the memory bandwidth requirements for such smaller PUs, methods are provided for restricting inter-coded PUs of small block sizes to be coded only in a uni-predictive mode, i.e., forward prediction or backwa...