US Patent Issued to INTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS on July 29 for "Method for encoding and/or decoding images on macroblock level using intra-prediction" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,713, issued on July 29, was assigned to INTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS INC. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Method for encoding and/or decoding images on macroblock level using intra-prediction" was invented by Yu Wen Wu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Conventional intra-prediction uses pixels from left and upper neighbour blocks to predict a macroblock (MB). Thus, the MBs must be sequentially processed, since reconstructed left and upper MBs must be available for prediction. In an improved method for encoding Intra predicted MBs, a MB is encoded in two steps: first, a first portion of the MB is encoded independently, without references outsi...