US Patent Issued to ORANGE on June 16 for "Weighted image prediction, image coding and decoding using such a weighted prediction" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,455, issued on June 16, was assigned to ORANGE (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Weighted image prediction, image coding and decoding using such a weighted prediction" was invented by Pierrick Philippe (Chatillon, France) and Theo Ladune (Chatillon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for predicting at least one set of current pixels, implemented by a prediction device, in which at least one set of current pixels is predicted on the basis of at least one set of reference pixels, with the assistance of a pixel prediction weighting function. The pixel prediction weighting function of the at least one set of current pixels is a...