US Patent Issued to INTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS on Jan. 13 for "Methods and apparatus for determining quantization parameter predictors from a plurality of neighboring quantization parameters" (California, New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,417, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to INTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS INC. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods and apparatus for determining quantization parameter predictors from a plurality of neighboring quantization parameters" was invented by Xiaoan Lu (Princeton, N.J.), Joel Sole (San Diego), Peng Yin (Ithaca, N.Y.), Qian Xu (Folsom, Calif.) and Yunfei Zheng (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus are provided for determining quantization parameter predictors from a plurality of neighboring quantization parameters. An apparatus includes an encoder for encoding image data for at least a portion of a picture us...