ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,427, issued on June 10, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).
"Method and apparatus for deriving an interpolation filter index for a current block" was invented by Timofey Mikhailovich Solovyev (Munich), Sergey Yurievich Ikonin (Moscow), Roman Igorevich Chernyak (Moscow), Alexander Alexandrovich Karabutov (Munich), Elena Alexandrovna Alshina (Munich) and Huanbang Chen (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to video encoding and decoding, and in particular, a method for inter prediction for a block in a frame of a video signal includes: constructing a history-based mot...