US Patent Issued to Canon on June 16 for "Video coding and decoding involving modifying list of predictors" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,464, issued on June 16, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Video coding and decoding involving modifying list of predictors" was invented by Guillaume Laroche (Saint Aubin d'Aubigne, France) and Patrice Onno (Rennes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improvements to the processing of predictors is disclosed. A list of predictors is obtained, the list of predictors having at least two predictors. It is determined whether to modify the list of predictors based on a criterion using a first cost related to a first predictor in the list and a second cost related to a second predictor in the list. The list of predictors is modified b...