US Patent Issued to Tencent America on March 3 for "IBC chroma block vector search range validation" (Pennsylvania, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,202, issued on March 3, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"IBC chroma block vector search range validation" was invented by Xiaozhong Xu (State College, Pa.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure include methods and apparatuses for video coding. One of the apparatuses includes processing circuitry that receives a bitstream of a current region in a picture. The current region includes a luma coding region and a chroma coding region. The luma coding region and the chroma coding region are partitioned using separate coding tree structures. The processing circuitry ...