US Patent Issued to INTOPIX on March 3 for "Video encoding applying a refresh scheme" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,209, issued on March 3, was assigned to INTOPIX SA (Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium).

"Video encoding applying a refresh scheme" was invented by Renaud Ambroise (Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium), Gael Rouvroy (Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium), Pascal Pellegrin (Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium) and Allan Barrea (Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sequence of frames is encoded in the following manner. An evaluation for respective zones in a frame is made whether a zone should be encoded in an intra-mode or in an inter-mode. A refresh scheme is applied that causes a set of zones in the frame to be forcibly encoded in the intra...