US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Feb. 24 for "Block vector storing and tool harmonization for block vector related video coding" (Taiwanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,183, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Block vector storing and tool harmonization for block vector related video coding" was invented by Po-Han Lin (Taipei, Taiwan), Jian-Liang Lin (Su'ao Township, Taiwan), Yao-Jen Chang (San Diego), Vadim Seregin (San Diego) and Marta Karczewicz (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of encoding or decoding video data includes storing a block vector (BV) for a current block in a history BV list for encoding or decoding a subsequent block, wherein the current block is encoded or decoded in intra temporal motion vector prediction (IntraTMP) mode, and wherein t...