US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on Aug. 19 for "Method and apparatus for affine based inter prediction of chroma subblocks" (Russian, American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,670, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for affine based inter prediction of chroma subblocks" was invented by Vasily Alexeevich Rufitskiy (Moscow), Timofey Mikhailovich Solovyev (Munich), Alexey Konstantinovich Filippov (Moscow) and Jianle Chen (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to method and apparatus for motion vector derivation for affine based inter prediction of chroma subblocks based on chroma format. The method includes: determining chroma scaling factors in horizontal and vertical directions based on chroma format info...