ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,147, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to InterDigital VC Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Method and apparatus for video encoding and decoding based on illumination compensation" was invented by Philippe Bordes (Cesson-Sevigne, France), Franck Galpin (Cesson-Sevigne, France) and Fabien Racape (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for video coding and decoding are provided. The method of video encoding includes determining a set of parameters for illumination compensation associated with a first motion compensated reference block of a block in a picture of a video based on a function of a set of sa...