US Patent Issued to INTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS on April 15 for "Method and apparatus for selecting a coding mode used for encoding/decoding a residual block" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,961, issued on April 15, was assigned to INTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS INC. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Method and apparatus for selecting a coding mode used for encoding/decoding a residual block" was invented by Fabrice Urban (Thorigne-Fouillard, France), Tangi Poirier (Thorigne-Fouillard, France) and Fabrice Leleannec (Mouaze, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present principles relate to a method and device. A method for encoding a residual block comprises: obtaining (500) a first coding mode relative to a first 2D transform when coding the residual blocks according to a coding mode relative to a first 2D transform is enabled; obtaini...