US Patent Issued to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY, BYTEDANCE on Sept. 1 for "Efficient affine merge motion vector derivation" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,649, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijng, China) and BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).

"Efficient affine merge motion vector derivation" was invented by Kai Zhang (San Diego), Li Zhang (San Diego), Hongbin Liu (Beijing) and Yue Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video processing method for efficient affine merge motion vector derivation is disclosed. In one aspect, a video processing method is provided to include partitioning a current video block into sub-blocks; deriving, for each sub-block, a motion vector, where the motion vector for each sub-block is associated with a ...