ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,979, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"IntraBC using wedgelet partitioning" was invented by Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.), Xiaozhong Xu (State College, Pa.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates generally to video coding and particularly to intra block copy coding mode using wedgelet partitioning. For example, a method is disclosed for processing video data which may include receiving a video bitstream comprising a current block of a video frame; extracting an IntraBC flag from the video bitstream indicating that the current block is predicted un...