US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on March 24 for "Hardware efficient decoder side motion vector refinement" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,665, issued on March 24, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Hardware efficient decoder side motion vector refinement" was invented by Yi-Chih Hsin (Zhubei, Taiwan) and In Suk Chong (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various hardware arrangements for use with a hardware decoder are described to perform motion vector (MV) refinement. A buffer stores pixel values for a first prediction block identified by a first initial MV and pixels defined by a first search area and stores a second prediction block identified by a second initial MV and pixels defined by a second search area. The first and second ...