ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,101, issued on March 17, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Template matching refinement for affine motion" was invented by Guichun Li (San Jose, Calif.), Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.), Lien-Fei Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A current block is coded by an affine mode and includes a first control point at a first corner of the current block. A current template associated with the first control point is determined. A plurality of candidate reference templates is determined in a reference picture for the current template. A reference template is selected from t...