US Patent Issued to Ofinno on July 22 for "Block vector predictor refinement based on reference region boundary" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,882, issued on July 22, was assigned to Ofinno LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Block vector predictor refinement based on reference region boundary" was invented by Damian Ruiz Coll (Reston, Va.) and Tae Meon Bae (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus determines a value of a coordinate for a sample is outside a range of values of the coordinate for samples in a reference region. The sample is displaced relative to a current block by an amount indicated by a block vector predictor (BVP). The apparatus adjusts a component, corresponding to a direction of the coordinate, of the BVP to have an adjusted value closer to the range of ...