ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,357, issued on May 20, was assigned to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings SAS (Paris).
"Coding mode information propagation for video coding" was invented by Philippe De Lagrange (Betton, France), Franck Galpin (Thorigne-Foulliard, France), Fabrice Leleannec (Betton, France) and Karam Naser (Mouaze, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Coding mode information of a current block is propagated to neighbor blocks even when the coding mode is not selected for a current block. Such propagation may be limited, for example to one block only or to multiple generation of copies. Different propagation modes are proposed: left to right direction,...