ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,988, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS SAS (Paris).
"Switchable interpolation filters" was invented by Philippe Bordes (Laille, France), Franck Galpin (Thorigne-Fouillard, France), Tangi Poirier (Thorigne-fouillard, France) and Philippe De Lagrange (Betton, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus to improve compression efficiency in a video compression scheme enables use of switchable interpolation filters. The interpolation filters are used on multiple partitions of video blocks, enabling better motion compensated prediction and improved video coding efficiency. In one embodiment...