US Patent Issued to Alibaba (China) on Aug. 25 for "Overlapped block motion compensation (OBMC) for intra mode" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,108, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Alibaba (China) Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Overlapped block motion compensation (OBMC) for intra mode" was invented by Xinwei Li (Beijing), Ru-ling Liao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jie Chen (Beijing) and Yan Ye (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for processing video includes receiving a bitstream; and decoding, using coded information of the bitstream, one or more pictures. The decoding includes performing overlapped block motion compensation (OBMC) on a block predicted with an intra mode."

The patent was filed on June 20, 2024, under Application No. 18/748,757.

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