ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,877, issued on July 22, was assigned to BEIJING DAJIA INTERNET INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).
"Enhanced motion estimation for inter coding" was invented by Xiaoyu Xiu (San Diego), Che-Wei Kuo (Beijing), Wei Chen (San Diego), Yi-Wen Chen (San Diego), Hong-Jheng Jhu (San Diego), Xianglin Wang (San Diego) and Bing Yu (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums are provided for encoding video. An encoder may obtain a first motion vector (MV) associated with a video block obtained from the video. The encoder may obtain a first prediction signal of the video...