US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Feb. 17 for "Merge and block vector refinement for intra template matching prediction" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,688, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Merge and block vector refinement for intra template matching prediction" was invented by Yonguk Yoon (Palo Alto, Calif.), Biao Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Roman Chernyak (Santa Clara, Calif.), Lien-Fei Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.), Motong Xu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Ziyue Xiang (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bitstream including coded information of a current block and neighboring blocks of the current block in a current picture is received. Whether a merge mode is enabled for the current block is determined bas...