ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,651, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Encoder, a decoder and corresponding methods for inter-prediction" was invented by Semih Esenlik (Munich), Han Gao (Shenzhen, China), Anand Meher Kotra (Munich), Biao Wang (Shenzhen, China) and Jianle Chen (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-transitory computer-readable medium for inter-prediction and an encoder are provided. An initial motion vector is obtained for a current block. Search space positions are determined according to the initial motion vector. Matching costs for the search space positions are checked according to a che...