US Patent Issued to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION on April 22 for "SBTMVP-based inter prediction method and apparatus" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,335, issued on April 22, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"SBTMVP-based inter prediction method and apparatus" was invented by Hyeongmoon Jang (Seoul, South Korea) and Junghak Nam (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method by which a decoding device performs image decoding, according to the present document, comprises the steps of: deriving a reference block on the basis of a motion shift; determining whether a subblock temporal motion vector predictor (sbTMVP) candidate is available, on the basis of whether the reference block is a current picture referencing (CPR) block; derivin...