US Patent Issued to Canon on July 15 for "Method and apparatus for encoding or decoding video data with sub-pixel motion vector refinement" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,339, issued on July 15, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Method and apparatus for encoding or decoding video data with sub-pixel motion vector refinement" was invented by Guillaume Laroche (Saint Aubin d'Aubigne, France), Patrice Onno (Rennes, France), Jonathan Taquet (Talensac, France) and Christophe Gisquet (Acigne, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a device for encoding or decoding video data. It concerns more particularly the encoding according to a particular encoding mode using a decoder side motion vector derivation mode referenced as frame-rate up conversion mode or FRUC mode. In FRUC merge mode, the deri...