ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,670, issued on March 24, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Video coding and decoding" was invented by Guillaume Laroche (Saint Aubin d'Aubigne, France), Patrice Onno (Rennes, France) and Romain Bellessort (St Gregoire, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improvements to the derivation and ordering of one or more pairwise motion vector predictor candidates in the list of motion vector predictor candidates are disclosed. An initial list of motion vector predictor candidates is generated for decoding a portion of an image, and when candidate reordering is selected for the image portion, reordering at least a portion of said initia...