ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,618, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea), KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and KWANGWOON UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COLLABORATION FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for video coding using motion vector difference derivation" was invented by Dong Gyu Sim (Seoul, South Korea), Min Hun Lee (Uijeongbu-si, South Korea), Joo Hyung Byeon (Seoul, South Korea), Jin Heo (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Seung Wook Park (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for video coding using a motion vector difference derivation includes parsing one motion v...