US Patent Issued to INTERDIGITAL MADISON PATENT HOLDINGS on June 16 for "Wide angle intra prediction with sub-partitions" (French, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,456, issued on June 16, was assigned to INTERDIGITAL MADISON PATENT HOLDINGS SAS (Paris).

"Wide angle intra prediction with sub-partitions" was invented by Fabien Racape (San Francisco), Gagan Rath (Rennes, France) and Fabrice Urban (Thorigne Fouillard, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for performing prediction for encoding or decoding uses intra prediction with sub-partitions. The sub-partitions are oriented either horizontally or vertically and can use wide-angle modes different than that of the video block they originate from. Reference samples for a sub-partition are those of the video block when refer...