US Patent Issued to Tencent America on March 3 for "IBC merge mode with a block vector difference" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,240, issued on March 3, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"IBC merge mode with a block vector difference" was invented by Lien-Fei Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Roman Chernyak (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xiaozhong Xu (State College, Pa.), Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.) 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 an apparatus for video coding. The apparatus includes processing circuitry that receives coded information of a current block in a current picture. The current block is predicted based on a reference block in the current picture indicated by a block vector...