US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 9 for "Block vector prediction in video and image coding/decoding" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,771, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Block vector prediction in video and image coding/decoding" was invented by Lihua Zhu (Mountain View, Calif.), Gary J. Sullivan (Bellevue, Wash.), Jizheng Xu (Beijing), Sridhar Sankuratri (Campbell, Calif.), B. Anil Kumar (Saratoga, Calif.) and Feng Wu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Innovations in the area of prediction of block vector ("By") values improve encoding or decoding of blocks using intra block copy ("BC") prediction. For example, some of the innovations relate to use of a default BV predictor with a non-zero value. Othe...