US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on May 27 for "Device and method for encoding motion vector, and device and method for decoding motion vector" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,856, issued on May 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Device and method for encoding motion vector, and device and method for decoding motion vector" was invented by Minwoo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minsoo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kwangpyo Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kiho Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yinji Piao (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, performed by an image decoding apparatus, of decoding a motion vector, including obtaining information indicating a motion vector resolution of a current block from a bitstream; selecting a first neighboring b...