ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,434, issued on May 19, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Multiple modes and multiple templates for template matching related video coding tools" was invented by Po-Han Lin (Taipei, Taiwan), Jian-Liang Lin (Su'ao Township, Taiwan), Vadim Seregin (San Diego) and Marta Karczewicz (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of coding video data comprises: determining a template pattern from among a set of two or more template patterns; identifying a reference template based on a similarity of the reference template and a current template, wherein the reference template and the current template have a shape defined by the ...