US Patent Issued to DOLBY INTERNATIONAL on April 8 for "Method of coding and decoding images, coding and decoding device and computer programs corresponding thereto" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,524, issued on April 8, was assigned to DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB (Dublin).

"Method of coding and decoding images, coding and decoding device and computer programs corresponding thereto" was invented by Felix Henry (Saint Gregoire, France), Stephane Pateux (Rennes, France) and Gordon Clare (Pace, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for coding includes; segmenting an image into blocks; grouping blocks into a number of subsets; coding, using an entropy coding module, each subset, by associating digital information with symbols of each block of a subset, including, for the first block of the image, initializing state variables o...