US Patent Issued to INTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS on Sept. 9 for "Methods and apparatus for intra coding a block having pixels assigned to groups" (California, New Jersey, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,742, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to INTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS INC. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods and apparatus for intra coding a block having pixels assigned to groups" was invented by Qian Xu (Folsom, Calif.), Joel Sole (San Diego), Peng Yin (Ithaca, N.Y.), Yunfei Zheng (San Jose, Calif.) and Xiaoan Lu (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus are provided for intra coding a block having pixels assigned to groups. An apparatus includes a video encoder for encoding a block in a picture using intra prediction by dividing pixels within the block into at least a first group and a second group and encoding...