US Patent Issued to InterDigital VC Holdings on Nov. 25 for "Method and apparatus for video encoding and decoding using pattern-based block filtering" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,697, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to InterDigital VC Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Method and apparatus for video encoding and decoding using pattern-based block filtering" was invented by Philippe Bordes (Cesson-Sevigne, France), Philippe De Lagrange (Cesson-Sevigne, France) and Edouard Francois (Cesson-Sevigne, France).

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 accessing a reconstructed block corresponding to a block in a picture of a video, determining at least one filter pattern based on a property of the block and filtering the r...