US Patent Issued to Tencent America on April 22 for "Subblock-based motion vector predictor with MV offset derived by template matching" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,331, issued on April 22, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Subblock-based motion vector predictor with MV offset derived by template matching" was invented by Xin Zhao (Santa Clara, Calif.), Lien-Fei Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Han Gao (San Diego), Guichun Li (San Jose, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coded video bitstream comprising a current block in a current picture is received. The current block includes a plurality of subblocks and is to be predicted by a subblock-based template matching motion vector prediction (SbTMVP) mode. A respective collocated reference subblock ...