US Patent Issued to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings on Feb. 17 for "Cross-component depth-luma coding" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,711, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings SAS (Paris).

"Cross-component depth-luma coding" was invented by Edouard Francois (Bourg des Comptes, France), Gagan Bihari Rath (Rennes, France), Karam Naser (Mouaze, France) and Tangi Poirier (Thorigne-Fouillard, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed for cross-component depth-luma coding. Depth information may be used as information for joint or cross-component coding of texture information (e.g., luma, chroma, or R, G, B colour component information). The depth information may be used to jointly code the co...