US Patent Issued to Ofinno on May 26 for "BVD sign inference in IBC based on BV and BVP components" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,247, issued on May 26, was assigned to Ofinno LLC (Reston, Va.).

"BVD sign inference in IBC based on BV and BVP components" was invented by Tae Meon Bae (McLean, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.) and Kalyan Goswami (Reston, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decoder receives, from a bitstream for a video, an indication of a block vector predictor (BVP) for a block vector (BV). Each of the BV, the BVP, and a block vector difference (BVD) associated with the BV and the BVP has two components in two respective directions. The decoder determines a sign of a component of the BVD in one direction of the two directions based on: a co...