ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,580, issued on June 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Overlapped block motion compensation (OBMC) blending selection in video coding" was invented by Yao-Jen Chang (San Diego), Vadim Seregin (San Diego) and Marta Karczewicz (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for decoding video data can be configured to determine that a block is coded in an overlapped block motion compensation (OBMC) mode; determine a first prediction block for the block using a first motion vector for the block; determine a second prediction block for the block using a second motion vector, wherein the second motion is a motion vector of a...