US Patent Issued to Tencent America on Sept. 9 for "Intra template matching prediction in GDR pictures" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,777, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Intra template matching prediction in GDR pictures" was invented by Biao Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.), Lien-Fei Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method, a first area and a second area of a current frame is determined when the current frame is a GDR frame. The first area is independently coded and the second area is coded with dependency. When a current block in the current frame is coded by an intraTMP mode or an IBC mode, a search range of the intraTMP mode or the IBC mod...