ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,118, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Method and apparatus using affine non-adjacent candidates for video coding" was invented by Chen-Yen Lai (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Tzu-Der Chuang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Ching-Yeh Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for video coding using non-adjacent affine candidates are provided. According to this method, one or more neighboring MVs (motion vectors) are determined from one or more non-adjacent affine-coded neighbors of the current block. CPMVs (Control-Point Motion Vectors) are determined based on said one or more neighboring MV...