US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on June 2 for "Template matching for flipped intra block copy" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,602, issued on June 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Template matching for flipped intra block copy" was invented by Chun-Chi Chen (San Diego), Han Huang (San Diego), Zhi Zhang (Munich), Vadim Seregin (San Diego) and Marta Karczewicz (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example device for decoding video data includes a memory configured to store video data; and a processing system implemented in circuitry and configured to: decode a block vector difference (BVD) value for a current block of video data; determine an initial block vector for the current block of video data using intra template matching prediction (...