US Patent Issued to InterDigital VC Holdings on Oct. 14 for "Coding and decoding methods of a picture block, corresponding devices and data stream" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,635, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to InterDigital VC Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Coding and decoding methods of a picture block, corresponding devices and data stream" was invented by Philippe Bordes (Laille, France), Franck Hiron (Chateaubourg, France), Pierre Andrivon (Liffre, France), Patrick Lopez (Livre sur Changeon, France) and Philippe Salmon (Saint Sulpice la Foret, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for decoding a picture block is disclosed. The decoding method comprises: decoding (10) at least one stream S_diff into decoded data and into one information for identifying a reconstructed reference picture...