US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on June 24 for "Picture prediction method and picture prediction apparatus" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,989, issued on June 24, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Picture prediction method and picture prediction apparatus" was invented by Sixin Lin (Shenzhen, China), Ruopu Huang (Shenzhen, China) and Haitao Yang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A picture prediction method includes: determining motion vectors of W control points in a current picture block; obtaining motion vectors of P pixel units of the current picture block by using a motion model and the motion vectors of the W control points, where precision of the determined motion vectors of the W control points is 1/n of pixel precisio...