US Patent Issued to INTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS on May 13 for "Encoding and decoding methods and apparatus" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,871, issued on May 13, was assigned to INTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS INC. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Encoding and decoding methods and apparatus" was invented by Didier Doyen (Cesson-Sevigne, France), Franck Galpin (Thorigne-Fouillard, France) and Guillaume Boisson (Pleumeleuc, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for decoding or encoding includes obtaining views parameters for a set of views comprising at least one reference view and a current view of a multi-views video content wherein each view comprises a texture layer and a depth layer. For at least one couple of a reference view and the current view of the set of views, an inter...