ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,777, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Guangdong, China).
"Optical flow based video inter prediction" was invented by Sriram Sethuraman (Karnataka, India), Jeeva Raj A (Tamil Nadu, India) and Sagar Kotecha (Maharashtra, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a video encoder or a video decoder obtains a pair of motion vectors for a current coding block of a video signal with respect to two reference frames. Predictions of the current block are generated using the pair of motion vectors from respective reference frames. The video encoder or video decoder further determine an optical fl...