ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,849, issued on March 4, 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 for an Affine Merge mode, comprising: generating a list of motion information predictor candidates; selecting one of the motion information predictor candidates in the list as an Affine Merge mode predictor; and generating a motion information predictor index for the selected motion informat...