MUMBAI, India, Oct. 19 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202647122182 A) filed by Koninklijke Philips N. V. on October 12, 2026, for Block Candidates For Intra Template Match Prediction.

Inventors include Lee, Jung Kyung; and Coll, Damian Ruiz.

The application for the patent was published on October 16, 2026, under issue no. 42/2026.

Abstract: To enable better video compression, an encoder and decoder are based on determining a first block vector prediction (BVP) candidate for predicting a block of pixel lumas of a current block of an image to be decoded, by applying a search using template matching prediction (TMP) for the block, wherein the first block vector prediction (BVP) candidate is a sparse candi...