ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,024, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).
"Decoder-side motion vector refinement (DMVR) process method and apparatus" was invented by Sriram Sethuraman (Karnataka, India) and Jeeva Raj A (Karnataka, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses of determining an alignment level between motion compensated reference patches for reducing motion vector refinement steps are provided. According to one method, obtaining, by a decoder, motion compensated interpolated samples based on sub-pixel accurate merge motion vectors from a bilinear motion compensated interpolation; computin...