US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 29 for "Encoder-side search ranges having horizontal bias or vertical bias" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,711, issued on July 29, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Encoder-side search ranges having horizontal bias or vertical bias" was invented by Lihua Zhu (Mountain View, Calif.), Yongjun Wu (Bellevue, Wash.) and Gary J. Sullivan (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Innovations in encoder-side search ranges having horizontal bias or vertical bias are described herein. For example, a video encoder determines a block vector ("BV") for a current block of a picture, performs intra prediction for the current block using the BV, and encodes the BV. The BV indicates a displacement to a region with...