ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,370, issued on March 11, 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 information predictor index, comprising: generating a list of motion information predictor candidates; when an Affine Merge mode is used, selecting one of the motion information predictor candidates in the list as an Affine Merge mode predictor; when a non-Affine Merge mode is used, selecting one of the motion inform...