US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on May 12 for "Constraints on locations of reference blocks for intra block copy prediction" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,818, issued on May 12, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Constraints on locations of reference blocks for intra block copy prediction" was invented by You Zhou (Sammamish, Wash.), Chih-Lung Lin (Redmond, Wash.) and Ming-Chieh Lee (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When encoding/decoding a current block of a current picture using intra block copy ("BC") prediction, the location of a reference block is constrained so that it can be entirely within an inner search area of the current picture or entirely within an outer search area of the current picture, but cannot overlap both the inner s...