US Patent Issued to MEDIATEK SINGAPORE on April 14 for "Using template matching for refining candidate selection" (Taiwanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,996, issued on April 14, was assigned to MEDIATEK SINGAPORE PTE. LTD. (Singapore).

"Using template matching for refining candidate selection" was invented by Olena Chubach (San Jose, Calif.), Chun-Chia Chen (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Man-Shu Chiang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Tzu-Der Chuang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Ching-Yeh Chen (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Chih-Wei Hsu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Yu-Wen Huang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video coding system that uses template matching (TM) to improve signaling of coding modes is provided. The system receives data to be encoded or decoded as a current block of a current...