ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,448, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Enhanced motion vector prediction" was invented by Yeqing Wu (San Jose, Calif.), Alexandros Tourapis (Los Gatos, Calif.), Yunfei Zheng (Santa Clara, Calif.), Hsi-Jung Wu (San Jose, Calif.), Jun Xin (San Jose, Calif.), Albert E. Keinath (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Mei Guo (San Jose, Calif.) and Alican Nalci (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoder or decoder can perform enhanced motion vector prediction by receiving an input block of data for encoding or decoding and accessing stored motion information for at least one other block of data. Based on the store...