US Patent Issued to ARRIS Enterprises on June 23 for "Offset temporal motion vector predictor (TMVP)" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. RE50,935, issued on June 23, was assigned to ARRIS Enterprises LLC (Horsham, Pa.).

"Offset temporal motion vector predictor (TMVP)" was invented by Krit Panusopone (San Diego), Seungwook Hong (San Diego) and Limin Wang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved method for temporal motion vector prediction for inter block HEVC is provided that relies on a block translational model. The method adds an offset to a temporal motion vector predictor (TMVP) to improve prediction accuracy. The method first designates a current prediction block as an area for motion compensation where all the pixels inside the prediction block perform ide...