ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,849, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for decoder-side motion vector refinement subsampling" was invented by Han Gao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xin Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Liang Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jing Ye (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method of video coding includes receiving a video bitstream comprising a plurality of blocks, including a current block. The method also includes identifying a current subblock in the current block and deriving a subsampled subblock by sub-sampling the current subblock. The ...