ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,785, issued on July 1, was assigned to Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Filters for motion compensation interpolation with reference down-sampling" was invented by Jiancong Luo (San Mateo, Calif.), Yan Ye (San Mateo, Calif.) and Mohammed Golam Sarwer (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems and methods for processing video content using motion compensation interpolation. The methods include: encoding or decoding a picture block by applying one or more filters to a reference picture, wherein the applying of the one or more filters generates a sample at a fracti...