US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Aug. 25 for "Local motion extension in video coding" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,065, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Local motion extension in video coding" was invented by Rachel Barker (Cambridge, Great Britain), Debargha Mukherjee (Cupertino, Calif.) and Jianle Chen (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A warp model is determined for a block to be coded by using local motion extension. Motion for an adjacent block is extended locally into the block to determine motion for predicting the block. A motion model used for inter-prediction of an adjacent block that shares at least a portion of a boundary with a current block to be predicted is determined. The motion model...