US Patent Issued to InterDigital VC Holdings on March 4 for "Method and device for picture encoding and decoding" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,831, issued on March 4, was assigned to InterDigital VC Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Method and device for picture encoding and decoding" was invented by Edouard Francois (Bourg des Comptes, France), Fabrice Leleannec (Mouaze, France) and Tangi Poirier (Thorigne-Fouillard, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cross-component dependent tool to be used for a chroma block of a picture is enabled responsive to a size of said chroma block and to a size of at least one luma block co-located with the chroma block. Then, the chroma block is decoded responsive to said enablement of said cross-component dependent tool. A encoding and ...