US Patent Issued to KT on May 26 for "Method for refining a motion vector derived under a merge mode using a difference vector" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,282, issued on May 26, was assigned to KT Corp. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Method for refining a motion vector derived under a merge mode using a difference vector" was invented by Bae Keun Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image decoding method according to the present invention comprises: a step of acquiring an initial motion vector of a current block; a step of deriving a refined motion vector for each of a plurality of search points on the basis of the initial motion vector; and a step of acquiring a motion vector of the current block on the basis of the refined motion vector of any one of the plura...