US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on July 14 for "Affine prediction using an epipolar-based constraint for pictures of differing resolutions" (American, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,130, issued on July 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Affine prediction using an epipolar-based constraint for pictures of differing resolutions" was invented by Louis Joseph Kerofsky (San Diego), Varun Ravi Kumar (San Diego) and Senthil Kumar Yogamani (Headford, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus configured to encode video data is configured to receive a first picture having a first resolution, receive a second picture having a second resolution, wherein the second resolution is different than the first resolution, and wherein the first picture and the second picture have at least partially overlapping...