US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Sept. 23 for "Inter-prediction candidate index coding" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,628, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Inter-prediction candidate index coding" was invented by Minhua Zhou (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods are provided for inter-prediction candidate index coding independent of the construction of the corresponding inter-prediction candidate list, i.e., a merging candidate list or an advanced motion vector predictor list. A maximum allowed number of inter-prediction candidates for an inter-prediction candidate list is used for encoding the inter-prediction candidate index in an encoded bit stream. The maximum allowed number may be pre-determined...