US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on May 19 for "Overlapped decoder side motion refinement" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,473, issued on May 19, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Overlapped decoder side motion refinement" was invented by Ruoyang Yu (Stockholm), Jacob Strom (Stockholm) and Kenneth Andersson (Gavle, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for encoding or decoding a first structure within a picture in a video sequence are provided. The method comprises, for a second structure within the first structure, determining an initial motion vector, MV, and MV candidates. The method comprises, for each of the MV candidates, using the MV candidate to derive first and second reference blocks, and ...