US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on May 27 for "Unified intra block copy and inter prediction modes" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,860, issued on May 27, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Unified intra block copy and inter prediction modes" was invented by Bin Li (Beijing) and Ji-Zheng Xu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Innovations in unified intra block copy ("BC") and inter prediction modes are presented. In some example implementations, bitstream syntax, semantics of syntax elements and many coding/decoding processes for inter prediction mode are reused or slightly modified to enable intra BC prediction for blocks of a frame. For example, to provide intra BC prediction for a current block of a current picture, a mot...