US Patent Issued to InterDigital VC Holdings on Jan. 28 for "Sub-block motion derivation and decoder-side motion vector refinement for merge mode" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,773, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to InterDigital VC Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Sub-block motion derivation and decoder-side motion vector refinement for merge mode" was invented by Xiaoyu Xiu (San Diego), Yuwen He (San Diego) and Yan Ye (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and instrumentalities for sub-block motion derivation and motion vector refinement for merge mode may be disclosed herein. Video data may be coded (e.g., encoded and/or decoded). A collocated picture for a current slice of the video data may be identified. The current slice may include one or more coding units (CUs). One or more n...