US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on June 24 for "Bi-directional inter prediction method and apparatus" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,950, issued on June 24, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Bi-directional inter prediction method and apparatus" was invented by Huanbang Chen (Shenzhen, China), Jianle Chen (San Diego) and Haitao Yang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application discloses bi-directional inter prediction methods and apparatuses. One method includes: determining a reference picture index i1 of a first reference picture list as a first reference picture index corresponding to a current block, determining a reference picture index i2 of a second reference picture list as a second reference...