ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,722, issued on July 21, was assigned to InterDigital VC Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Illumination compensation for video encoding and decoding" was invented by Fabrice Urban (Thorigne Fouillard, France), Antoine Robert (Mezieres sur Couesnon, France) and Philippe Bordes (Laille, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video codec can involve determining a motion compensation mode associated with encoding a first block of picture information, the motion compensation mode including a sub-block based motion compensation prediction mode or a non-rectangular block partition mode; determining that a second block of picture informatio...