ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,840, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmonds, Wash.).

"Realtime video super resolution using motion vectors" was invented by Sushanth Rajasankar (Redmond, Wash.), Rafael V. Cintron (Redmond, Wash.) and Frank Kam-Chuen Li (Snoqualmie, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A low resolution image frame is received. A past reference low resolution image frame and its super resolution result are retained. Motion vectors between the input low resolution image frame and reference low resolution frame are computed. For each pixel in the low resolution image frame, a reference pixel is determined based...