ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,121, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings SAS (Paris).

"Methods and apparatuses for encoding/decoding a video" was invented by Philippe Bordes (Laille, France), Franck Galpin (Thorigne-Fouillard, France), Thierry Dumas (Rennes, France) and Karam Naser (Mouaze, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for encoding/decoding a video are provided. A picture from a video is decoded from a bit-stream, the picture being encoded in the bitstream at a resolution that is lower than an original resolution of the picture. Decoding the picture further comprises up-sampling the decoded picture to th...