ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,060, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Early termination for optical flow refinement" was invented by Semih Esenlik (Munich), Sriram Sethuraman (Bangalore, India), Jeeva Raj A (Rasipuram, India) and Sagar Kotecha (Mangal Karyalaya, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is provided a method of video coding implemented in a decoding device or an encoding device, the method comprising: obtaining initial motion vectors for a current block; obtaining first predictions for a sample value in the current block based on the initial motion vectors; calculating a first matching cost according...