ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,881, issued on July 22, was assigned to InterDigital VC Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Predictor candidates for motion compensation" was invented by Tangi Poirier (Cesson-Sevigne, France), Antoine Robert (Cesson-Sevigne, France) and Fabrice Leleannec (Cesson-Sevigne, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Different implementations are described, particularly implementations for determining a set of predictor candidates for affine merge coding mode from neighboring blocks for motion compensation of a picture block based on a motion model. The motion model, may be, e.g., an affine model in a merge mode or AMVP mode for a video conte...