ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,596, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Block vector refinement method for intra block copy" was invented by Guichun Li (San Jose, Calif.), Lien-Fei Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Xiaozhong Xu (State College, Pa.), Xin Zhao (Santa Clara, 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 encoding/decoding. In some examples, an apparatus for video decoding includes receiving circuitry and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry extracts, from a bitstream, a signal indicative of an application of a template m...