ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,464, issued on April 29, was assigned to SUN PATENT TRUST (New York).
"Method of performing motion vector prediction, and apparatus thereof" was invented by Chong Soon Lim (Singapore), Sue Mon Thet Naing (San Jose, Calif.), Takahiro Nishi (Nara, Japan), Hisao Sasai (Osaka, Japan), Youji Shibahara (Osaka, Japan), Toshiyasu Sugio (Osaka, Japan), Kyoko Tanikawa (Osaka, Japan), Toru Matsunobu (Osaka, Japan) and Kengo Terada (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of performing motion vector prediction for a current block in a picture is provided which includes: deriving a candidate for a motion vector predictor to code a cur...