ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,299, issued on May 26, was assigned to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings SAS (Paris).

"Methods and apparatuses for converting film grain metadata" was invented by Milos Radosavljevic (Rennes, France), Philippe De Lagrange (Betton, France), Edouard Francois (Bourg des Comptes, France) and Zoubida Ameur (Cesson-Sevigne, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for converting film grain metadata are provided. In an embodiment, a first film grain metadata is obtained, the first film grain metadata complying with a first film grain syntax and being representative of a first film grain model. At least one part of the fi...