ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,637, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings SAS (Paris).

"Spatial illumination compensation on large areas" was invented by Fabrice Le Leannec (Betton, France), Ya Chen (Rennes, France) and Gaelle Martin-Cocher (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reconstruction method comprising: obtaining (811) a region predictor for a current region of a picture based on a spatial prediction; obtaining (812) an information representative of a partitioning of the current region into sub-regions; reconstructing (813) at least one residual sub-region based on an intra prediction residual and an intra prediction m...