US Patent Issued to MediaTek on Sept. 30 for "Method and apparatus for hardware-friendly template matching in video coding system" (Taiwanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,373, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Method and apparatus for hardware-friendly template matching in video coding system" was invented by Chun-Chia Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Olena Chubach (San Jose, Calif.), Chih-Wei Hsu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Tzu-Der Chuang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ching-Yeh Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yu-Wen Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and apparatus for template matching with a determined area are disclosed. According to this method, a current template comprising current neighbouring pixels on an above side of the current block, on a left side of the curren...