ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,400, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Multi-template based intra-frame template matching prediction" was invented by Xiaozhong Xu (State College, Pa.), Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.), Roman Chernyak (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video bitstream including coding information of a current block in a current picture is received, where the coding information indicates that the current block is coded with an intra template matching prediction mode. At least one template for predicting the current block is determined. Each of the at least one temp...