US Patent Issued to InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings on July 22 for "Chroma processing for video encoding and decoding" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,869, issued on July 22, was assigned to InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings SAS (Paris).

"Chroma processing for video encoding and decoding" was invented by Edouard Francois (Cesson-Sevigne, France), Remi Jullian (Rennes, France) and Franck Hiron (Chateaubourg, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and methods for encoding or decoding picture information that involve determining a scaling factor to scale a chroma prediction residual associated with chroma information included in the picture information; scaling the chroma prediction residual based on the scaling factor to provide a scaled chroma prediction residual; and ...