| CPC H04N 19/146 (2014.11) [H04N 19/119 (2014.11); H04N 19/122 (2014.11); H04N 19/176 (2014.11)] | 35 Claims |

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1. Apparatus for picture decoding, configured to
select, out of a search area of a picture, a set of one or more patches which match a template area adjacent to a predetermined picture block; and
predictively decode the predetermined picture block from a data stream based on the set of one or more patches,
wherein the apparatus is configured to select the search area out of a plurality of subareas into which an overall search area associated with the predetermined picture block is sub-divided, based on a signalization in the data stream,
wherein the template area and the predetermined picture block are within a further picture and the overall search area is displaced from a position within the picture collocated to the predetermined picture block by a vector, wherein the apparatus is configured to derive the vector from the data stream.
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