US Patent Issued to ORANGE on June 10 for "Methods and devices for encoding and decoding a data stream representing at least one image" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,451, issued on June 10, was assigned to ORANGE (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Methods and devices for encoding and decoding a data stream representing at least one image" was invented by Felix Henry (Chatillon, France), Pierrick Philippe (Chatillon, France), Mohsen Abdoli (Chatillon, France) and Gordon Clare (Chatillon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for decoding a coded data stream representative of at least one image that is split into blocks. For at least one block of the image, referred to as the current block, an item of information indicating a coding mode of the current block is decoded from the data stream. W...