MUMBAI, India, March 15 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202417098926 A) filed by Alibaba (CHINA) Co. Ltd., Zhejiang, China, on Dec. 13, 2024, for 'decoder-side motion vector refinement for affine motion compensation.'
Inventor(s) include Chen, Jie; Liao, Ru-Ling; Li, Xinwei; and Ye, Yan.
The application for the patent was published on March 14, under issue no. 11/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A VVC-standard encoder and a VVC-standard decoder are provided, implementing application of DMVR on affine merge mode-coded blocks to refine the motion vector accuracy and thereby improve coding efficiency. A refined motion vector (MV) search is performed for a contro...