US Patent Issued to DOLBY INTERNATIONAL on Feb. 3 for "Method of coding and decoding images, coding and decoding device and computer programs corresponding thereto" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,922, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB (Dublin).

"Method of coding and decoding images, coding and decoding device and computer programs corresponding thereto" was invented by Felix Henry (Saint Gregoire, France) and Gordon Clare (Pace, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for coding at least one image split up into partitions, a current partition to be coded containing data, at least one data item of which is allotted a sign. The coding method includes, for the current partition, the following steps: calculating the value of a function representative of the data of the current partition wi...