US Patent Issued to ORANGE on Aug. 5 for "Methods and devices for coding and decoding a data stream representative of at least one image" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,095, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to ORANGE (Issy les Moulineaux, France).

"Methods and devices for coding and decoding a data stream representative of at least one image" was invented by Felix Henry (Chatillon, France) and Mohsen Abdoli (Chatillon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device for coding and decoding a coded data stream representative of at least one image split into blocks. For a current block, a group of pixel values in the block is determined from previously decoded pixels, and for each pixel, a prediction residue is decoded. A prediction value for the pixel is determined according to a first predict...