ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,069, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).
"Apparatus and method for conditional decoder-side motion vector refinement in video coding" was invented by Sriram Sethuraman (Bangalore, India), Jeeva Raj A (Bangalore, India) and Sagar Kotecha (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for inter-prediction of a current image block in a current picture of a video is provided. The method includes determining whether a first temporal distance (such as TD0) is equal to a second temporal distance (such as TD1), wherein the first temporal distance is represented in terms of a differen...