US Patent Issued to Tencent America on Sept. 23 for "Intra block copy prediction for overlapped reference block" (Pennsylvania, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,573, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Intra block copy prediction for overlapped reference block" was invented by Xiaozhong Xu (State College, Pa.), Roman Chernyak (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure includes methods and apparatuses. One of the apparatuses includes processing circuitry that is configured to receive a bitstream of a current block in a picture. The bitstream includes coding information indicating that the current block is coded according to a prediction mode with a block vector (BV). The processing circ...