US Patent Issued to Tencent America on Sept. 9 for "Template matching based partitioning pattern derivation" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,757, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Template matching based partitioning pattern derivation" was invented by Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.), Guichun Li (San Jose, Calif.), Lien-Fei Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Han Gao (San Diego) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reference block is determined from a plurality of candidate reference blocks for a current block in a current picture based on template matching (TM) costs of the plurality of candidate reference blocks. The TM costs indicate differences between a template of the current block and respective reference templ...