US Patent Issued to InterDigital VC Holdings on March 3 for "Quantization parameter prediction for video encoding and decoding" (French, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,219, issued on March 3, was assigned to InterDigital VC Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Quantization parameter prediction for video encoding and decoding" was invented by Edouard Francois (Bourg des Comptes, France), Fabrice Le Leannec (Betton, France) and Fabien Racape (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods for encoding and decoding video data having improved quantization parameter prediction are presented and can include using a combination of quantization parameter prediction values obtained from respective ones of a plurality of quantization parameter prediction methods to encode or decode the vide...