ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,900, issued on July 22, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Systems and methods for performing motion compensation in video coding" was invented by Jonatan Alfred Samuelsson-Allendes (Stockholm) and Sachin G. Deshpande (Vancouver, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may be configured to determine a scaling factor corresponding to down sampling between a reference picture and a current picture. The device may be configured to select a motion compensation interpolation filter based on a value of the scaling factor being a range, wherein the selected motion compensation interpolation filter coefficients are based on a ...