ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,734, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Defining a search range for motion estimation for each scenario frame set" was invented by Yufeng Li (Shenzhen, China) and Wei Guo (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video motion estimation method including obtaining a plurality of image frames in a video, and performing scenario classification processing on the plurality of image frames to obtain a plurality of image frame sets. The method further includes extracting a contour feature and a color feature of a foreground object of each image frame, and determining a searc...