ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,871, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings SAS (Paris).

"Externally enhanced prediction for video coding" was invented by Fabrice Le Leannec (Betton, France), Philippe Bordes (Laille, France), Franck Galpin (Thorigne-Fouillard, France) and Antoine Robert (Mezieres sur Couesnon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video coding system for an image of a video representative of a virtual environment comprises an encoder and a decoder that perform a reconstruction of a differential picture based on a decoded picture buffer, wherein the decoded picture buffer comprises a least a picture based on a reference...