US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on May 26 for "Affine motion estimation using an epipolar-based constraint" (American, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,280, issued on May 26, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Affine motion estimation using an epipolar-based constraint" 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 captured at a first time and a first location, receive a second picture captured at a second time and a second location, wherein the second time is different from the first time, and wherein the second location is different than the first location, and encode a current b...