US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology on Oct. 21 for "Motion estimation method and apparatus in coding process, device, storage medium" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,431, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Motion estimation method and apparatus in coding process, device, storage medium" was invented by Hongbin Zhang (Shenzhen, China) and Wei Kuang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motion estimation method in a coding process includes obtaining a video frame, determining a target code block from the video frame, obtaining reference motion information of an auxiliary code block of the target code block including motion information of N adjacent code blocks adjacent to the target code block, determining a target reference picture search...