US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on March 25 for "Features of intra block copy prediction mode for video and image coding and decoding" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,045, issued on March 25, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Features of intra block copy prediction mode for video and image coding and decoding" was invented by Bin Li (Beijing), Jizheng Xu (Beijing) and Gary J. Sullivan (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Innovations in intra block copy ("BC") prediction mode facilitate intra BC prediction that is more effective in terms of rate-distortion performance and/or computational efficiency of encoding and decoding. For example, some of the innovations provide ways to select block vector ("BV") values more effectively. Other innovations provi...