ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,144, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Memory access window and padding for motion vector refinement and motion compensation" was invented by Semih Esenlik (Munich), Ivan Krasnov (Munich), Zhijie Zhao (Shenzhen, China) and Jianle Chen (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to motion vector determination using template or bilateral matching and predictor generation based on the motion vector. The template or bilateral matching and/or the predictor generation use interpolation filtering. The interpolation filtering operation accesses integer sample posi...