US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on March 24 for "Bidirectional optical flow estimation method and apparatus" (Chinese, South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,210, issued on March 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Bidirectional optical flow estimation method and apparatus" was invented by Xin Jin (Nanjing, China), Guotao Shen (Nanjing, China), Youxin Chen (Nanjing, China), Longhai Wu (Nanjing, China), Jie Chen (Nanjing, China) and Jayoon Koo (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bidirectional optical flow estimation method and apparatus are provided. The method includes acquiring a target image pair of which optical flow is to be estimated, and constructing an image pyramid for each target image in the target image pair respective...