ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,733, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to BEIJING DAJIA INTERNET INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Overlapped block motion compensation for inter prediction" 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: "A method for video decoding is provided. The method includes obtaining a plurality of sub-blocks within an affine coding unit (CU) of a video frame, where the plurality of sub-blocks include a plurality of boundary sub-blocks and a plurality of non-boundary s...