US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on June 23 for "Intra-block copy for natural video content" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,045, issued on June 23, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Intra-block copy for natural video content" was invented by Bappaditya Ray (San Diego), Hongtao Wang (San Diego), Vadim Seregin (San Diego), Marta Karczewicz (San Diego) and Chun-Chi Chen (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for decoding video data can be configured to receive a first syntax element in a syntax structure set to a first value indicating that an intra block copy mode is enabled for slices corresponding to the syntax structure; receive a second syntax element in the syntax structure set to a first value indicating that the intra block copy...