US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on May 20 for "Inter prediction method and apparatus, and corresponding encoder and decoder that reduce redundancy in video coding" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,386, issued on May 20, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Inter prediction method and apparatus, and corresponding encoder and decoder that reduce redundancy in video coding" was invented by Xu Chen (Shenzhen, China) and Jianhua Zheng (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inter prediction method and apparatus, and a corresponding encoder and decoder are disclosed. The method includes: obtaining an index value of a length of a motion vector difference of the current picture block; determining target length information from a set of candidate length information based on the index value of the...