ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,984, issued on April 15, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Inter prediction method based on motion information mapping tables of partitions in geometrical partition mode, encoder, decoder, and storage medium" was invented by Junyan Huo (Dongguan, China), Yanzhuo Ma (Dongguan, China), Shuai Wan (Dongguan, China), Fuzheng Yang (Dongguan, China), Qihong Ran (Dongguan, China) and Ruipeng Qiu (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are inter prediction methods and a decoder. In the method, a bitstream is parsed to determine a prediction mode parameter of a current block...