US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Sept. 16 for "Template-matching based merge index reordering for geometric partition mode (GPM)" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,670, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Template-matching based merge index reordering for geometric partition mode (GPM)" was invented by Lien-Fei Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Guichun Li (San Jose, Calif.), Xin Zhao (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A current block is partitioned into a first partition and a second partition. Template samples of the current block are split into a first template region adjacent to the first partition and a second template region adjacent to the second partition. A plurality of first candidate reference blocks is ...