US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on June 17 for "Method and apparatus of simplified geometric merge mode for inter prediction" (German, Russian, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,489, issued on June 17, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus of simplified geometric merge mode for inter prediction" was invented by Alexey Konstantinovich Filippov (Moscow), Vasily Alexeevich Rufitskiy (Moscow), Semih Esenlik (Munich), Han Gao (Shenzhen, China) and Elena Alexandrovna Alshina (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: obtaining one or more parameters of a geometric merge (GEO) inter prediction mode for a current coding block; defining a size of a subblock that is smaller than a size of the current coding block; specifying a position of the subblock wit...