US Patent Issued to Tencent America on Dec. 23 for "Template matching for multiple reference line intra prediction" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,883, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Template matching for multiple reference line intra prediction" was invented by Xin Zhao (Santa Clara, Calif.), Guichun Li (San Jose, Calif.), Lien-Fei Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processing circuitry receives a video bitstream comprising a current coding block in a picture coded in a template-based multiple reference line intra prediction (TMRL) mode. The processing circuitry determines combinations of reference lines and intra prediction modes for the current coding block. A first combination in...