US Patent Issued to INTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS on Oct. 14 for "Method and device for predictive picture encoding and decoding" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,618, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to INTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS INC. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Method and device for predictive picture encoding and decoding" was invented by Edouard Francois (Bourg des Comptes, France), Christophe Chevance (Brece, France) and Franck Hiron (Chateaubourg, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for encoding a block of a picture comprising, for at least one sample of the block and for one current component: obtaining a prediction value; determining a mapped residual value from a source value of the sample and from the prediction value responsive to a mapping function; and encoding the mapped residua...