ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,620, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings SAS (Paris).
"Spatial predictor scan order" was invented by Antoine Robert (Cesson-Sevigne, France), Franck Galpin (Cesson-Sevigne, France), Fabrice Leleannec (Betton, France) and Gagan Rath (Cesson-Sevigne, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To encode a coding unit in the inter modes, there exist multiple inter modes that signal the motion information using a Motion Vector Predictor (MW) list. The MW lists for different coding modes include spatial predictors. In one embodiment, for all coding modes that use MVP lists, the top spatial predictor is first added...