ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,854, issued on March 4, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Signaling of block vector resolution" was invented by Xiaozhong Xu (State College, Calif.), Guichun Li (San Jose, Calif.), 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 methods and apparatuses for video decoding. In some examples, an apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry decodes prediction information of a current block from a coded video bitstream. Based on an intra block copy mode being applied to the current block, the processing circuitry infers...