US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on April 21 for "Encoder, a decoder and corresponding methods using IBC merge list" (Chinese, German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,076, issued on April 21, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Encoder, a decoder and corresponding methods using IBC merge list" was invented by Han Gao (Shenzhen, China), Semih Esenlik (Munich), Biao Wang (Shenzhen, China), Anand Meher Kotra (Munich) and Jianle Chen (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods and devices of construct a candidate merge list for Intra block copy (IBC) mode, the method comprising: inserting a block vector of a left neighboring block of a current block into an initial merge list, when the left neighboring block is available and the left...