ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,084, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).
"Encoder, a decoder and corresponding methods for inter prediction using gradient parameters" was invented by Sriram Sethuraman (Bangalore, India), Sagar Kotecha (Beed, India) and Jeeva Raj A (Rasipuram, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bidirectional optical flowing prediction method includes obtaining an initial motion vector pair for a current block, obtaining a forward and a backward prediction block according to the forward motion vector and a backward prediction block according to the initial motion vector pair, and calculating gradient ...