ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,656, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Context adaptive interpolation filter" was invented by Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.), Liang Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Han Gao (San Diego), Yushin Cho (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jing Ye (San Jose, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates generally to video coding and particularly to methods and systems for deriving context adaptive interpolation filter used for generating prediction samples in inter prediction involving a fractional motion vector or block vector. For example, an encoder and a decoder may der...