ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,651, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Adaptive block vector resolution in video coding" was invented by Xiaozhong Xu (State College, Pa.), Xiang Li (Saratoga, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for video coding. In some examples, the apparatus includes processing circuitry for video encoding. The processing circuitry selects a resolution from a set of resolutions that includes a 1-integer-pel resolution and a 4-integer-pel resolution. A current block is encoded with an intra block copy mode based ...