US Patent Issued to InterDigital VC Holdings on June 30 for "Motion vector determination based on data dependency" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,832, issued on June 30, was assigned to InterDigital VC Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Motion vector determination based on data dependency" was invented by Antoine Robert (Mezieres sur Couesnon, France), Fabrice Leleannec (Mouaze, France) and Franck Galpin (Thorigne-Fouillard, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decoding method is disclosed. A flag is first decoded. The flag indicates whether a current block of a picture is decoded with a tool of a set of tools. The set of tools comprises tools using reconstructed samples of neighboring blocks decoded prior to the current block or using a block of the picture larger than a h...