ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,377, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Adaptive affine motion compensation unit determing in video picture coding method, video picture decoding method, coding device, and decoding device" was invented by Hong Zhang (Shenzhen, China) and Haitao Yang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a video picture coding method, a video picture decoding method, a coding device, and a decoding device. The method includes: determining a distance between control points for an affine picture block; determining a motion vector difference for the affine pictu...