US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on March 4 for "Encoder-side options for intra block copy prediction mode for video and image coding" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,823, issued on March 4, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Encoder-side options for intra block copy prediction mode for video and image coding" 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 encoder-side options for 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. For example, some of the innovations relate to concurrently performing block vector ("BV") estimation and making block...