US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on June 2 for "Apparatus and method for encoding motion vector by using basic motion vector, and decoding apparatus and method" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,598, issued on June 2, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for encoding motion vector by using basic motion vector, and decoding apparatus and method" was invented by Jin-Young Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yin-ji Piao (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Woong-il Choi (Osan-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of decoding a motion vector includes: determining at least one prediction motion vector (PMV) candidate block used to determine a PMV of a current block; determining an availability of a motion vector of the at least one PMV candidate block; when there is a PMV c...