US Patent Issued to InterDigital VC Holdings on March 31 for "Local illumination compensation for video encoding and decoding using stored parameters" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,052, issued on March 31, was assigned to InterDigital VC Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Local illumination compensation for video encoding and decoding using stored parameters" was invented by Fabrice Leleannec (Betton, France), Tangi Poirier (Thorigne-Fouillard, France), Ya Chen (Rennes, France) and Philippe Bordes (Laille, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Local illumination compensation system for video encoding and decoding uses memory for storing illumination compensation parameters and does not require access to reconstructed pixels of neighboring blocks. A set of illumination compensation parameters is stored in a d...