US Patent Issued to InterDigital VC Holdings on July 15 for "Methods and apparatus for picture encoding and decoding" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,295, issued on July 15, was assigned to InterDigital VC Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods and apparatus for picture encoding and decoding" was invented by Tangi Poirier (Thorigne-Fouillard, France), Franck Galpin (Thorigne-Fouillard, France) and Fabrice Leleannec (Mouaze, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decoding method is disclosed that comprises: determining whether a current block of a picture extends beyond a boundary of the picture; determining for each split mode of a plurality of split modes whether said current block is allowed to undergo splitting according to said split mode by checking whether at least one ...