ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,693, issued on May 6, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Template matching on IBC merge candidates" was invented by Ling Li (Seoul, South Korea), Xiang Li (Saratoga, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of video processing in a decoder includes determining, by a processor, an initial block vector for predicting a current block in a current coding tree unit (CTU) in response to the current block being predicted in an intra block copy (IBC) mode. The initial block vector is determined based on a merge index included in a coded video bitstream. The method further includes ...