US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on Jan. 13 for "Limited memory access window for motion vector refinement" (Chinese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,444, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Limited memory access window for motion vector refinement" was invented by Semih Esenlik (Munich), Anand Meher Kotra (Munich), Zhijie Zhao (Shenzhen, China) and Han Gao (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to motion vector refinement. As a first step, an initial motion vector and a template for the block are obtained. Then, the refinement of the initial motion vector is determined by template matching with said template in a search space. The search space is located on a position given by the initial moti...