US Patent Issued to InterDigital VC Holdings on Feb. 17 for "Method and apparatus for video encoding and decoding with partially shared luma and chroma coding trees" (French, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,695, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to InterDigital VC Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Method and apparatus for video encoding and decoding with partially shared luma and chroma coding trees" was invented by Fabrice Leleannec (Mouaze, France), Franck Galpin (Thorigne-Fouillard, France), Tangi Poirier (Thorigne-Fouillard, France) and Gagan Rath (Bhubaneswar, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Different implementations are described, particularly implementations for video encoding and decoding based on wherein the partitioning tree structure is partially shared between luma and chroma blocks are presented. According to an impleme...