US Patent Issued to InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings on April 15 for "Method and device for picture encoding and decoding using illumination compensation" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,967, issued on April 15, was assigned to InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings SAS (Paris).

"Method and device for picture encoding and decoding using illumination compensation" was invented by Philippe Bordes (Laille, France), Fabrice Leleannec (Mouaze, France), Tangi Poirier (Thorigne-Fouillard, France) and Fabrice Urban (Thorigne-Fouillard, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for reconstructing a picture block is disclosed, wherein the block is predicted using local illumination compensation. The parameters of local illumination compensation are determined according to a selection of reconstructed samples located to the l...