US Patent Issued to INTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS on May 13 for "Managing coding tools combinations and restrictions" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,881, issued on May 13, was assigned to INTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS INC. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Managing coding tools combinations and restrictions" was invented by Edouard Francois (Bourg des Comptes, France), Pierre Andrivon (Liffre, France), Franck Galpin (Thorigne-Fouillard, France), Fabrice Leleannec (Betton, France) and Michel Kerdranvat (Chantepie, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Video coding tools can be controlled by including syntax in a video bitstream that makes better use of video decoding resources. An encoder inserts syntax into a video bitstream to enable a decoder to parse the bitstream and easily control which tools...