US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on Feb. 11 for "Image or video coding based on temporal motion information in units of subblocks" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,225,201, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image or video coding based on temporal motion information in units of subblocks" was invented by Jie Zhao (Seoul, South Korea) and Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the disclosure of this document, in subblock-based temporal motion vector prediction (sbTMVP), base motion information for a subblock for which a motion vector is not available can be efficiently derived, and through this, video/image coding efficiency can be improved."

The patent was filed on June 11, 2020, under Application No. 17/617,279.

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