US Patent Issued to InterDigital VC Holdings on July 15 for "Method and a device for decoding an intra predicted block of a picture and corresponding coding method and coding device" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. RE50,495, issued on July 15, was assigned to InterDigital VC Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Method and a device for decoding an intra predicted block of a picture and corresponding coding method and coding device" was invented by Fabrice Leleannec (Betton, France), Tangi Poirier (Thorigne-Fouillard, France) and Fabrice Urban (Thorigne-Fouillard, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Edges of the plurality of reference blocks are adjacent to a current block of a picture. A single transform is applied to samples of each reference block. A single transform is applied to samples of the current block. A decoding method includes decoding a pl...