ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,857, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to BEIJING DAJIA INTERNET INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Methods and apparatuses for decoder-side motion vector refinement in video coding" was invented by Yi-Wen Chen (San Diego), Xiaoyu Xiu (San Diego), Tsung-Chuan Ma (San Diego) and Xianglin Wang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for video encoding is provided. The method includes: partitioning, by an encoder, a video frame into multiple blocks; deriving, by the encoder, an initial motion vector (MV) of a current block in the multiple blocks; determining, by the encoder, cost values for the initial MV and each of a p...