ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,013, issued on April 14, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).
"Threshold of similarity for candidate list" was invented by Yu-Ling Hsiao (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Chih-Wei Hsu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video coder generates a list of candidate prediction vectors for the current block. The video coder prunes the list of candidate prediction vectors by removing a first prediction vector that is within a threshold of a second prediction vector from the list. The threshold has a first value when refinement is enabled and a second value when refinement is not enabled. The video coder selects...