US Patent Issued to InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings on July 28 for "Method and apparatus for low-complexity bi-directional intra prediction in video encoding and decoding" (French, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,907, issued on July 28, was assigned to InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings SAS (Paris).

"Method and apparatus for low-complexity bi-directional intra prediction in video encoding and decoding" was invented by Gagan Bihari Rath (Cesson-Sevigne, France), Fabrice Le Leannec (Cesson-Sevigne, France), Franck Galpin (Cesson-Sevigne, France) and Fabien Racape (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for video decoding is disclosed. A directional intra prediction mode is decoded for a block of a picture, the directional intra prediction mode having a direction. Based on the directional intra prediction mode, a first predi...