US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Aug. 25 for "Methods for sub-block based temporal motion vector prediction" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,051, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Methods for sub-block based temporal motion vector prediction" was invented by Xiaozhong Xu (State College, Pa.), Xiang Li (Saratoga, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method of video decoding, a current picture is acquired from a coded video bitstream. A reference block included in a reference picture is identified for a current block included in the current picture. The reference picture is different from the current picture. The current block is divided into a plurality of current sub-blocks (CBSBs) that are c...