Patent ID: 9479795
Filing Date: 2016-10-25
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method for encoding a block of an image, the method comprising: encoding and reconstructing a part of the image, determining one reference block such that one reference patch, comprising one reference neighborhood adjacent to said one reference block and said reference block, resembles a patch, comprising a corresponding neighborhood of the block to be encoded and the block to be encoded, determining at least one further reference block such that, for each further reference block, a further reference patch comprising a further reference neighborhood of said further reference block and said further reference block, resembles said one reference patch, measuring a resemblance between two patches by means of a distance, and encoding a vector having as its origin the patch comprising the block to be encoded and pointing to the one reference patch and a residual of the block with respect to a combination of the one and the at least one further reference block.