US Patent Issued to Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software on May 12 for "Methods and apparatus of encoding/decoding video picture data" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,828, issued on May 12, was assigned to Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Methods and apparatus of encoding/decoding video picture data" was invented by Fabrice Leleannec (Beijing) and Pierre Andrivon (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for encoding a video picture into a bitstream of encoded video picture data, includes: temporal predicting a video picture block by obtaining a temporal predicted block based on at least one reference block of at least one reference picture pointed to by at least one motion vector associated with the video picture block, wherein if the temporal prediction of the video pict...