ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,709, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Motion search for reference block selection" was invented by Yu Han (San Diego), Vladan Andrijanic (San Diego), Wei-Jung Chien (San Diego), Cheng-Teh Hsieh (Del Mar, Calif.) and Marta Karczewicz (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of encoding video data includes determining an integer sample in a reference picture of the video data; determining, based on the integer sample, at least a first fractional sample and a second fractional sample, wherein the first fractional sample has a first fractional pel resolution, and the second fractional sample has a ...