US Patent Issued to InterDigital VC Holdings on April 7 for "Entropy coding for video encoding and decoding" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,326, issued on April 7, was assigned to InterDigital VC Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Entropy coding for video encoding and decoding" was invented by Ya Chen (Rennes, France), Fabrice Leleannec (Betton, France) and Tangi Poirier (Thorigne-Fouillard, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Encoding or decoding syntax information associated with video information can involve identifying a coding context associated with a syntax element of a current coding unit of the video information, wherein the identifying occurs without using a syntax element of a neighboring block, and encoding or decoding the syntax element of the current codi...