ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,962, issued on July 7, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Image coding method based on affine motion prediction, and device for same" was invented by Jaeho Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A picture decoding method implemented by a decoding device, according to the present invention, comprises the steps of: acquiring motion prediction information from a bitstream; generating an affine MVP candidate list comprising affine MVP candidates for the current block; deriving CPMVPs for the respective CPs of the current block on the basis of one affine MVP candidate amo...