ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,741, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to InterDigital VC Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Complexity reduction of overlapped block motion compensation" was invented by Yan Zhang (San Diego), Xiaoyu Xiu (San Diego), Yuwen He (San Diego) and Yan Ye (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Overlapped block motion compensation (OBMC) may be performed for a current video block based on motion information associated with the current video block and motion information associated with one or more neighboring blocks of the current video block. Under certain conditions, some or all of these neighboring blocks may be omitted from the OBMC ope...