ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,757, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Encoding/decoding method, apparatus, and system for video with first and second reference blocks" was invented by Sixin Lin (Shenzhen, China) and Mingyuan Yang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an encoding method, a decoding method, an encoding apparatus, a decoding apparatus, for a video image. The encoding method includes: determining an optimal integrated neighboring block for a current block based on a motion vector integration technology; determining, based a prediction direction of the optimal ...