US Patent Issued to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings on March 25 for "Intra prediction for video encoding and decoding" (French, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,050, issued on March 25, was assigned to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings SAS (Paris).

"Intra prediction for video encoding and decoding" was invented by Gagan Rath (Bretagne, France), Fabrice Urban (Thorigne Fouillard, France), Fabrice Le Leannec (Betton, France) and Fabien Racape (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Decoding or encoding picture information can involve determining a value associated with a prediction of a pixel of a block of picture information, wherein, the prediction is based on an intra-prediction along a non-diagonal direction, determining, from among a plurality of decoded pixels neighboring the block ...