US Patent Issued to InterDigital VC Holdings on June 24 for "Methods and apparatus for prediction refinement for decoder side motion vector refinement with optical flow" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,969, issued on June 24, was assigned to InterDigital VC Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods and apparatus for prediction refinement for decoder side motion vector refinement with optical flow" was invented by Wei Chen (San Diego), Yuwen He (San Diego) and Jiancong Luo (Skillman, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, devices, apparatus, systems, architectures and interfaces to improve motion vector (MV) refinement based sub-block (SB) level motion compensated prediction are provided. A decoding method includes receiving a bitstream of encoded video data, the bitstream including at least one block of video data including ...