US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Dec. 30 for "Hints selection for hardware-based pyramidal motion estimation search" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,325, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Hints selection for hardware-based pyramidal motion estimation search" was invented by Jianjun Chen (Shanghai), Chun Feng Yang (Shanghai), Yongmao Tang (Shanghai), Zejun Hu (Shanghai) and Wei Feng (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments include techniques for performing hardware-assisted motion estimation when encoding blocks of a media frame. A video encoder generates motion vector hints for multiple phases of motion estimation at increasingly finer resolutions until the final motion estimation phase at the full resolution of the media ...