US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on Dec. 30 for "DMVR-based inter-prediction method and device" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,301, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"DMVR-based inter-prediction method and device" was invented by Naeri Park (Seoul, South Korea) and Junghak Nam (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image decoding method performed by a decoding device according to the present document comprises the steps of: deriving a motion vector for a current block; determining whether to apply refinement to the motion vector for the current block; deriving a refined motion vector by applying decoder-side motion vector refinement (DMVR) to the motion vector if it is determined to apply refinement t...