US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 1 for "Representative motion information for temporal motion prediction in video encoding and decoding" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,769, issued on July 1, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Representative motion information for temporal motion prediction in video encoding and decoding" was invented by Bin Li (Beijing) and Jizheng Xu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are representative embodiments of generating representative motion information that can be used during processing of a video frame. In one exemplary embodiment disclosed herein, a reference frame comprising a group of blocks is processed, and motion information for the group of blocks is compressed at least by buffering representative motion-vec...