ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,677, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Video coding and decoding" was invented by Guillaume Laroche (Saint Aubin d'Aubigne, France), Christophe Gisquet (Acigne, France), Patrice Onno (Rennes, France) and Jonathan Taquet (Talensac, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of encoding a motion vector predictor index, in particular a Merge index, comprises generating a list of motion vector predictor candidates, in particular merge candidates. The list includes an ATMVP candidate. One of the motion vector predictor candidates in the list is selected. A motion vector predictor index for the selected motion vec...