US Patent Issued to InterDigital VC Holdings on July 7 for "Method and apparatus for encoding a picture block" (French, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,976, issued on July 7, was assigned to InterDigital VC Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Method and apparatus for encoding a picture block" was invented by Fabrice Leleannec (Cesson-Sevigne, France), Franck Galpin (Cesson-Sevigne, France), Fabien Racape (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Sunil Jaiswal (Rennes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for encoding a block is disclosed. To this aim, a split mode is determined based on a rate-distortion optimization using a texture-based split prediction set obtained for the block. As an example, the split mode is determined by adapting the texture-based split prediction set according to at ...