US Patent Issued to InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings on Feb. 24 for "Method and apparatus for intra prediction with multiple weighted references" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,227, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings SAS (Paris).

"Method and apparatus for intra prediction with multiple weighted references" was invented by Gagan Rath (Rennes, France), Tangi Poirier (Thorigne-Fouillard, France) and Fabrice Urban (Thorigne-Fouillard, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of performing intra prediction for encoding or decoding uses multiple layers of reference samples. The layers are formed into reference arrays that are used by a function, such as a weighted combination, to form a final prediction. The prediction is used in encoding or decoding a block of video dat...