US Patent Issued to InterDigital VC Holdings on March 18 for "Block boundary prediction refinement with optical flow" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,082, issued on March 18, was assigned to InterDigital VC Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Block boundary prediction refinement with optical flow" was invented by Wei Chen (San Diego), Jiancong Luo (Skillman, N.J.) and Yuwen He (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed for sub-block/block refinement, including sub-block/block boundary refinement, such as block boundary prediction refinement with optical flow (BBPROF). A block comprising a current sub-block may be decoded based on a sample value for a first pixel that is obtained based on, for example, an MV for a current sub-blo...