ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,416, issued on May 20, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).
"Side motion refinement in video encoding/decoding systems" was invented by Du Liu (Solna, Sweden), Rickard Sjoberg (Stockholm), Jacob Strom (Stockholm) and Ruoyang Yu (Taby, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for decoding a current block in a current picture of a video bitstream includes decoding, from the video bitstream, a first motion vector for the current block relative to a first reference block of a first reference picture having a first picture order count, and decoding, from the video bitstream, a second motion vector for ...