US Patent Issued to Tencent America on May 12 for "Template based prediction" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,827, issued on May 12, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Template based prediction" was invented by Biao Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Madhu Peringassery Krishnan (Mountain View, Calif.), Lien-Fei Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Roman Chernyak (Santa Clara, Calif.), 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 includes methods and apparatuses for video decoding and video encoding and a method of processing visual media data. Coded information in a bitstream is received. The coded information indicates whether filtering is to be applied to at least one of...