US Patent Issued to InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings on Feb. 18 for "Hybrid texture particle coding mode improvements" (French, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,686, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings SAS (Paris).

"Hybrid texture particle coding mode improvements" was invented by Fabrice LeLeannec (Betton, France), Tangi Poirier (Thorigne-Fouillard, France), Karam Naser (Mouaze, France), Ya Chen (Rennes, France), Gaelle Martin-Cocher (Toronto) and Gagan Bihari Rath (Rennes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Video content frequently seen in gaming content and having a higher probability of being coded in transform skip mode is coded separately from remaining portions of a video coding block before being combined with regular coded portions. This enable...