ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,736, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Bidirectional inter prediction method and terminal based on motion vector difference reduction" was invented by Jicheng An (Shenzhen, China), Xu Chen (Shenzhen, China) and Jianhua Zheng (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inter prediction method includes obtaining predicted motion information of a current image block, where the predicted motion information is used to obtain one or more motion vectors of the current image block, and the motion vectors include a forward MV and a backward MV for a bidirectional inter prediction. The ...