US Patent Issued to Sharp on July 7 for "Device and method for decoding video data based on matching template size selection" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,961, issued on July 7, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"Device and method for decoding video data based on matching template size selection" was invented by Yu-Chiao Yang (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of decoding video data performed by an electronic device is provided. The method receives the video data and determines a block unit from a current frame included in the video data. The method further selects, for the block unit, multiple reference matching blocks from the current frame, determines, from the current frame, a current matching template, neighboring the block unit, and multiple refe...