US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on July 14 for "Inter prediction method and related apparatus" (Chinese, Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,157, issued on July 14, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Inter prediction method and related apparatus" was invented by Huanbang Chen (Shenzhen, China), Xiang Ma (Moscow), Haitao Yang (Shenzhen, China) and Lian Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are an inter prediction method based on an affine prediction mode and a related apparatus. The method includes: obtaining a predicted pixel value of a current affine block; obtaining an LIC flag of the current affine block, where the LIC flag is used to indicate whether local illumination compensation LIC is applied to the current a...