US Patent Issued to InterDigital VC Holdings on July 8 for "Encoding and decoding methods and corresponding devices" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,996, issued on July 8, was assigned to InterDigital VC Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Encoding and decoding methods and corresponding devices" was invented by Fabrice Leleannec (Cesson-Sevigne, France), Tangi Poirier (Cesson-Sevigne, France) and Ya Chen (Cesson-Sevigne, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decoding method is disclosed. First, context for a syntax element associated with a current transform coefficient of a block of a picture is determined. The context is determined based on the area of said block, on the position of the current transform coefficient within the block and on the number of non-zero neighboring tra...