ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,277, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to INTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS INC. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Method and apparatus for candidate list pruning" was invented by Fabien Racape (San Francisco), Franck Galpin (Thorigne-Fouillard, France) and Antoine Robert (Mezieres sur Couesnon, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Video signal coding and decoding functions can generate lists of potential candidates to use in coding and decoding, for example, predictors. Video signal coding component candidate undergo operations before potential inclusion in candidate lists. The candidates are checked after being modified by the operations to see if other ...