US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on April 8 for "Method and apparatus for prediction refinement with optical flow for an affine coded block" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,532, issued on April 8, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Guangdong, China).

"Method and apparatus for prediction refinement with optical flow for an affine coded block" was invented by Huanbang Chen (Shenzhen, China), Haitao Yang (Shenzhen, China) and Jianle Chen (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an apparatus, an encoder, a decoder and corresponding methods for prediction refinement with optical flow (PROF) for an affine coded block, in which when a plurality of optical flow decision conditions are fulfilled for the affine coded block, performing a PROF process for a current sub...