US Patent Issued to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings on Jan. 13 for "Motion vector prediction in video encoding and decoding" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,420, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings SAS (Paris).

"Motion vector prediction in video encoding and decoding" was invented by Franck Galpin (Thorigne-Fouillard, France), Fabrice Leleannec (Betton, France), Antoine Robert (Mezieres sur Couesnon, France) and Tangi Poirier (Thorigne-Fouillard, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video codec can involve encoding and decoding picture information and first and second flags, wherein the encoding or decoding of the picture information is based on a coding mode indicated by the first flag or the second flag, and the first flag indicates a subblock merge mo...