US Patent Issued to InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings on May 27 for "Method and apparatus for video encoding and decoding with bi-directional optical flow adapted to weighted prediction" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,870, issued on May 27, was assigned to InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings SAS (Paris).

"Method and apparatus for video encoding and decoding with bi-directional optical flow adapted to weighted prediction" was invented by Franck Galpin (Thorigne-Fouillard, France), Philippe Bordes (Laille, France) and Edouard Francois (Bourg des Comptes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Different implementations are described, particularly implementations for video encoding and decoding are presented. According to an implementation, in a method for encoding or decoding a part of an image, at least an equation of the bi-directional optical flow...