US Patent Issued to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings on July 8 for "Method and device for picture encoding and decoding using position dependent intra prediction combination" (French, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,970, issued on July 8, was assigned to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings SAS (Paris).

"Method and device for picture encoding and decoding using position dependent intra prediction combination" was invented by Gagan Rath (Rennes, France), Fabien Racape (San Francisco) and Fabrice Urban (Thorigne Fouillard, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are video coding systems comprising a post-processing stage using position dependent intra prediction combination where a predicted sample is modified based on a weighting between a value of a left or top reference sample and the obtained predicted value for the sample, wherein the left ...