MUMBAI, India, June 19 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202617055489 A) filed by Alibaba China Co. , Ltd. on April 30, 2026, for Subblock-Based Temporal Motion Vector Prediction.

Inventors include Liao, Ru-Ling; Ye, Yan; Chen, Jie; Li, Xinwei; and Zheng, Yeping.

The application for the patent was published on June 05, 2026, under issue no. 23/2026.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for subblock-based temporal motion vector prediction (SbTMVP). An exemplary decoding method includes: decoding a target coding unit (CU) based on a SbTMVP mode, wherein the target CU is divided into a plurality of subblocks; determining a same reference picture index for the plurality of subblocks; selecting, based on the determined reference picture index, a reference picture from a list of reference pictures; generating a plurality of predicted subblocks based on the selected reference picture; and reconstructing the target CU based on the plurality of predicted subblocks.

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