US Patent Issued to Dolby Laboratories Licensing on Oct. 6 for "Predictive motion vector coding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,837, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco).

"Predictive motion vector coding" was invented by Alexandros Tourapis (Burbank, Calif.) and Athanasios Leontaris (Burbank, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Overlapped block disparity estimation and compensation is described. Compensating for images with overlapped block disparity compensation (OBDC) involves determining if OBDC is enabled in a video bit stream, and determining if OBDC is enabled for one or more macroblocks that neighbor a first macroblock within the video bit stream. The neighboring macroblocks may be transform coded. If OB...