ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,784, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Encoder, a decoder and corresponding methods using history based motion vector prediction" was invented by Anand Meher Kotra (Munich), Jianle Chen (San Diego), Semih Esenlik (Munich), Biao Wang (Shenzhen, China), Han Gao (Shenzhen, China) and Zhijie Zhao (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments provide methods and devices (encoder and/or decoder) of coding a picture. A History Based Motion Vector Prediction (HMVP) list for a current Coding Tree Unit (CTU) row within a tile of a picture is initialized and a CTU of the current C...