US Patent Issued to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings on Sept. 9 for "Method or an apparatus for estimating film grain parameters" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,789, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings SAS (Paris).

"Method or an apparatus for estimating film grain parameters" was invented by Milos Radosavljevic (Rennes, France), Edouard Francois (Bourg des Comptes, France), Erik Reinhard (Hede-Bazouges, France) and Zoubida Ameur (Cesson-Sevigne, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "At least a method and an apparatus are presented for efficiently processing film grain while encoding or decoding video. For example, the method comprises estimating film grain parameters for a plurality of image blocks in an image with film grain, wherein the film grain parameters...