ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,026, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to MEDIATEK SINGAPORE PTE. LTD. (Singapore).

"Method and apparatus for low-latency template matching in video coding system" was invented by Olena Chubach (San Jose, Calif.), Chun-Chia Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Man-Shu Chiang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Tzu-Der Chuang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ching-Yeh Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chih-Wei Hsu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yu-Wen Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for video coding system that utilizes low-latency template-matching motion-vector refinement are disclosed. According to this method, a current template for a current block i...