US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on July 7 for "Method to generate hash tables for efficient block matching in predictive coding" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,009, issued on July 7, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Method to generate hash tables for efficient block matching in predictive coding" was invented by Christophe Gisquet (Acigne, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for video encoding. A method includes dividing a video frame into a plurality of areas, and generating a plurality of hash tables to be used for block matching in predictive coding of the video frame. At least one hash table of the plurality of hash tables is assigned for use for a corresponding area of the plurality of areas. The method further includes performing pred...