ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,917, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Inter prediction method, encoder, decoder, and storage medium" was invented by Yanzhuo Ma (Dongguan, China), Junyan Huo (Dongguan, China), Shuai Wan (Dongguan, China), Fuzheng Yang (Dongguan, China) and Qihong Ran (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present application provide an inter prediction method, an encoder, a decoder, and a storage medium. The method comprises: determining a prediction mode parameter of a current block; when the prediction mode parameter indicates that the current bloc...