US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on July 1 for "Signaling sub-prediction unit motion vector predictor" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,762, issued on July 1, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Signaling sub-prediction unit motion vector predictor" was invented by Han Huang (San Diego), Wei-Jung Chien (San Diego), Vadim Seregin (San Diego) and Marta Karczewicz (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of decoding video data comprising parsing a sub-prediction unit motion flag from received encoded video data, deriving a list of sub-prediction unit level motion prediction candidates if the sub-prediction unit motion flag is active, deriving a list of prediction unit level motion prediction candidates if the sub-prediction unit motion flag is not activ...