US Patent Issued to InterDigital VC Holdings on March 24 for "Decoupled mode inference and prediction" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,672, issued on March 24, was assigned to InterDigital VC Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Decoupled mode inference and prediction" was invented by Franck Galpin (Thorigne-Fouillard, France), Antoine Robert (Mezieres sur Couesnon, France) and Fabrice Urban (Thorigne Fouillard, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of predicting or inferring a piece of information for encoding or decoding uses a predictor from a spatial neighbor, or from a reference picture, instead of predicting or inferring the information, such as a flag for a current block, from a motion predictor block. This procedure can be used in several ways, or us...