US Patent Issued to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings on Feb. 17 for "Intra block copy with template matching for video encoding and decoding" (French, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,683, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings SAS (Paris).

"Intra block copy with template matching for video encoding and decoding" was invented by Antoine Robert (Mezieres sur Couesnon, France), Karam Naser (Mouaze, France), Tangi Poirier (Thorigne-Fouillard, France) and Gaelle Martin-Cocher (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a video coding system, it is proposed to improve the intra prediction based on intra-block copy by allowing a decoder-side refinement allowing further refinement of the block vector obtained from IBC using a template matching process. In this template matching, the decoder sea...