US Patent Issued to InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings on May 12 for "Deep intra predictor generating side information" (French, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,836, issued on May 12, was assigned to InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings SAS (Paris).

"Deep intra predictor generating side information" was invented by Thierry Dumas (Rennes, France), Franck Galpin (Thorigne-Fouillard, France), Jean Begaint (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Fabien Racape (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "At least a method and an apparatus are presented for efficiently encoding or decoding video. For example, an intra prediction of an image block and side information are determined using at least one neural network from a context comprising pixels surrounding the image block. The side information allows a decode...