US Patent Issued to InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings on June 17 for "Neural network-based intra prediction for video encoding or decoding" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,539, issued on June 17, was assigned to InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings SAS (Paris).

"Neural network-based intra prediction for video encoding or decoding" was invented by Thierry Dumas (Rennes, France), Franck Galpin (Thorigne-Fouillard, France), Philippe Bordes (Laille, France) and Fabrice Leleannec (Betton, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video coding system is provided that performs intra prediction in a mode using a neural network for block of only a set of specific block sizes. The signaling of this mode is designed to be efficient in terms of rate-distortion under this constraint. Different transformations of the ...