US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on Nov. 11 for "Encoder, a decoder and corresponding methods for inter-prediction" (Chinese, German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,742, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Encoder, a decoder and corresponding methods for inter-prediction" was invented by Semih Esenlik (Munich), Han Gao (Shenzhen, China), Anand Meher Kotra (Munich), Biao Wang (Shenzhen, China) and Jianle Chen (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-transitory computer-readable medium for inter-prediction and an encoder are provided. An initial motion vector is obtained for a current block. Search space positions are determined according to the initial motion vector. Matching costs for the search space positions are checked according to a ch...