US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on May 13 for "Search range for intra block copy" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,852, issued on May 13, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Search range for intra block copy" was invented by Xiaozhong Xu (State College, Pa.), Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.) and Xiang Li (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. In some examples, an apparatus for video decoding includes receiving circuitry and processing circuitry. For example, the processing circuitry decodes prediction information of a current block in a current coding tree unit (CTU) from a coded video bitstream. The prediction information is indicati...