US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on March 4 for "Searching techniques for template matching for video coding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,840, issued on March 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Searching techniques for template matching for video coding" was invented by Cheng-Teh Hsieh (Del Mar, Calif.), Han Huang (San Diego), Chun-Chi Chen (San Diego) and Marta Karczewicz (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video decoder may be configured to receive a block of video data that was encoded using a coding mode that includes a search process in one or more reference frames. The video decoder may prefetch reference samples in a fixed search region of at least one reference frame of the one or more reference frames, and decode the block of video data usi...