ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,391, issued on May 20, was assigned to ZHEJIANG DAHUA TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Hangzhou, China).

"Systems and method for inter prediction based on a merge mode" was invented by Yao Chen (Hangzhou, China), Dong Jiang (Hangzhou, China), Jucai Lin (Hangzhou, China), Ruidong Fang (Hangzhou, China) and Jun Yin (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for inter prediction based on a Merge mode. The methods may include determining whether a current block in an image frame satisfies a division condition, and in response to determining that the current block satisfies the division condi...