US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Aug. 12 for "Template-matching based adaptive motion vector resolution (AMVR) for bi-prediction and an affine mode" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,978, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Template-matching based adaptive motion vector resolution (AMVR) for bi-prediction and an affine mode" was invented by Lien-Fei Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Xiang Li (Saratoga, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide a method and an apparatus including processing circuitry that performs template matching (TM) on motion vector resolution (MVR) pairs of a current block by determining a TM cost corresponding to each one of the MVR pairs. The current block is predicted with an affine adaptive motion...