ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,863, issued on May 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Affine prediction in video coding" was invented by Kai Zhang (San Diego), Jianle Chen (San Diego), Xin Zhao (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Marta Karczewicz (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for video decoding can be configured to obtain, from a syntax structure in a bitstream comprising an encoded representation of the video data, a syntax element indicating whether 6-parameter affine prediction is enabled for blocks corresponding to the syntax structure, wherein the blocks corresponding to the syntax structure comprise a first block; based on the syntax e...