US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on March 17 for "Method and apparatus for restricted long-distance motion vector prediction" (Russian, American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,059, issued on March 17, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for restricted long-distance motion vector prediction" was invented by Timofey Mikhailovich Solovyev (Munich), Jianle Chen (San Diego), Sergey Yurievich Ikonin (Moscow) and Maxim Borisovitch Sychev (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to encoding and decoding of video images. Motion vectors are used as predictors for prediction of an image for a current coding unit CU, which is within a current coding tree unit CTU. The motion vectors are taken from a list of motion vector candidates MVCs. T...