ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,440, issued on May 19, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Multi-frame motion compensation synthesis for video coding" was invented by Bohan Li (Santa Clara, Calif.), Yaowu Xu (Saratoga, Calif.) and Jingning Han (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motion vector for a current block of a current frame is decoded. The motion vector for the current block refers to a first reference block in a first reference frame. A first prediction block of two or more prediction blocks is identified in the first reference frame and using the first reference block. A first grid-aligned block is identified based on the ...