ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,279, issued on May 26, was assigned to InterDigital VC Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Symmetric merge mode motion vector coding" was invented by Hua Yang (Plainsboro, N.J.) and Yuwen He (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods are described herein for symmetric merge mode motion vector coding. Symmetric bi-prediction (bi-pred) motion vectors (MVs) may be constructed from available candidates in a merge candidate list for regular inter prediction merge mode and/or affine prediction merge mode. Available MV merge candidates may be symmetrically extended or mapped in either direction (e.g., between refe...