US Patent Issued to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings on March 18 for "Signaling of merge indices for triangle partitions" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,068, issued on March 18, was assigned to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings SAS (Paris).

"Signaling of merge indices for triangle partitions" was invented by Antoine Robert (Mezieres sur Couesnon, France), Fabrice Leleannec (Betton, France), Fabrice Urban (Thorigne Fouillard, France) and Ya Chen (Rennes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Different implementations are described, particularly implementations for video encoding and decoding are presented. Accordingly, the encoding or decoding comprises obtaining a merging candidate index that enables deriving both a first merging candidate index and a second merging candidate index in...