ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,642, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Method and apparatus for decoding video, and method and apparatus for encoding video" was invented by Alexander Alshin (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Elena Alshina (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video decoding and video encoding method of performing inter prediction in a bi-directional motion prediction mode, in which a prediction pixel value of a current block may be generated by not only using a pixel value of a first reference block of a first reference picture and a pixel value of a second reference block of a seco...