ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,359, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Asahi Kasei Microdevices Corp. (Amherst, Mass.).

"Global motion models for motion vector interprediction" was invented by Borivoje Furht (Boca Raton, Fla.), Hari Kalva (Boca Raton, Fla.) and Velibor Adzic (Canton, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decoder is configured to receive a bit stream including a current frame and a picture header associated with the entire current frame, determine, as a function of the picture header, that one global motion mode is enabled for the entire current frame, the enabled global motion mode being selected from a group including translational motion, 4-param...