US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Sept. 16 for "Motion vector prediction fusion for subblock-based temporal motion vector prediction (SbTMVP) and temporal motion vector prediction (TMVP)" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,659, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Motion vector prediction fusion for subblock-based temporal motion vector prediction (SbTMVP) and temporal motion vector prediction (TMVP)" was invented by Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.), Guichun Li (San Jose, Calif.), Lien-fei Chen (San Jose, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method, apparatus, and non-transitory storage medium for fusing sub-block motion vector predictors into one sub-block motion vector predictor during video coding and decoding is provided. The method may include deriving a first displacement vecto...