ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,636, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Segmentation-based parameterized motion models" was invented by Debargha Mukherjee (Cupertino, Calif.), Yuxin Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Sarah Parker (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multiple global motion models associated with respective segments of a current frame are decoded from a compressed bitstream. Each global motion model is based on a segmentation of the current frame and represents a respective underlying motion of blocks within a respective segment. Blocks of the current frame are decoded by: for each inter-predicted block of a s...