US Patent Issued to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings on June 23 for "Encoding and decoding methods and apparatus" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,003, issued on June 23, was assigned to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings SAS (Paris).

"Encoding and decoding methods and apparatus" was invented by Philippe Bordes (Laille, France), Tangi Poirier (Thorigne-Fouillard, France), Antoine Robert (Mezieres sur Couesnon, France), Fabrice Leleannec (Betton, France) and Franck Galpin (Thorigne-Fouillard, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for decoding or encoding comprising: determining if an inter prediction mode called weighted prediction is enabled for a current block; and, if weighted prediction is enabled, modifying a part of a reconstruction process of said current block rela...