US Patent Issued to INTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS on March 25 for "Method and device for encoding/decoding an image unit comprising image data represented by a luminance channel and at least one chrominance channel" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,028, issued on March 25, was assigned to INTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS INC. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Method and device for encoding/decoding an image unit comprising image data represented by a luminance channel and at least one chrominance channel" was invented by Fabrice Urban (Thorigne Fouillard, France), Franck Galpin (Thorigne-Fouillard, France), Tangi Poirier (Rennes, France) and Fabrice Leleannec (Mouaze, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present principles relates to a method for encoding an image unit comprising image data represented by a luminance channel and at least one chrominance channel, the method comprising obtainin...