US Patent Issued to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON on Oct. 7 for "Selective subblock-based motion refinement" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,076, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Selective subblock-based motion refinement" was invented by Ruoyang Yu (Taby, Sweden), Kenneth Andersson (Gavle, Sweden) and Jacob Strom (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method of encoding a picture. The method comprises selecting a motion vector. MV, for a current block within the picture. The method comprises determining whether a condition is satisfied, wherein determining whether the condition is satisfied comprises: (i) determining if a subblock-based motion refinement is applicable for the current block and (i...