ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,737, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to InterDigital VC Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Motion compensation for video encoding and decoding" was invented by Ya Chen (Rennes, France), Franck Galpin (Thorigne-Fouillard, France) and Tangi Poirier (Thorigne-fouillard, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video codec can involve processing video information based on a motion model involving a coding unit including a plurality of sub-blocks, such as an affine motion model, to produce motion compensation information, obtaining a local illumination compensation model, and encoding or decoding the video information based on the motion c...