US Patent Issued to Tencent America on Sept. 9 for "Method and apparatus for intra block copy (IntraBC) mode coding with search range restrictions" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,779, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for intra block copy (IntraBC) mode coding with search range restrictions" was invented by Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.), Xiaozhong Xu (State College, Pa.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates generally to video coding and particularly to intra block copy coding mode. An example method may include determining a first search area in a video frame, wherein the first search area is a first candidate area for locating IntraBC prediction block; determining a second search area, wherein the ...