ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,705, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Fractional-pel block vector for video coding" was invented by Chun-Chi Chen (San Diego), Bappaditya Ray (San Diego), Hongtao Wang (San Diego), Vadim Seregin (San Diego), Marta Karczewicz (San Diego) and Han Huang (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of encoding or decoding video data includes determining a block vector for a current block of a current picture, the block vector identifying a fractional-pel position between reference samples in the current picture and having a fractional-pel resolution that is less than integer-pel resolution; generating ...