US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on July 1 for "Inter-prediction method and device based on DMVR and BDOF" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,731, issued on July 1, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Inter-prediction method and device based on DMVR and BDOF" was invented by Naeri Park (Seoul, South Korea), Junghak Nam (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyeongmoon Jang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image decoding method according to the present document is characterized in that: decoder-side motion vector refinement (DMVR) is applied to derive refined L0 and L1 motion vectors on the basis of L0 and L1 motion vectors of the current block; prediction samples of the current block are derived on the basis of L0 prediction samples derived on ...