ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,081, issued on March 17, was assigned to InterDigital VC Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Affine mode signaling in video encoding and decoding" was invented by Franck Galpin (Thorigne-Fouillard, France), Fabrice Le Leannec (Betton, France) and Philippe Bordes (Laille, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In general, encoding or decoding a picture part can involve a first CABAC probability model associated with a first flag indicating use of an affine mode and a second CABAC probability model associated with a second flag indicating use of either the affine mode or a second mode different from the affine mode, where the first and ...