US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on Oct. 7 for "Method and apparatus for interpolation filtering for intra- and inter-prediction in video coding" (Russian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,040, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for interpolation filtering for intra- and inter-prediction in video coding" was invented by Alexey Konstantinovich Filippov (Moscow), Jianle Chen (San Diego) and Vasily Alexeevich Rufitskiy (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of video coding, wherein the method comprises inter-prediction processing of a first block, wherein the inter-prediction processing comprises subpixel interpolation filtering of samples of a reference block; intra-prediction processing of a second block, wherein the intra-prediction processin...