US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) on July 7 for "Coding a merged block that overlaps a reference block in intra block copy mode" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,982, issued on July 7, was assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Coding a merged block that overlaps a reference block in intra block copy mode" was invented by Yingbin Wang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coding block processing method includes receiving a bit stream, and determining, according to the bit stream, that a current coding block is coded in intra block copy mode, and that the current coding block overlaps a reference coding block. The method further includes, in response to the determination that the current coding block overlaps the reference coding block, determining th...