US Patent Issued to ORANGE on Sept. 8 for "Methods and devices for coding and decoding a data stream representing at least one image" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,616, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to ORANGE (Issy-les-moulineaux, France).

"Methods and devices for coding and decoding a data stream representing at least one image" was invented by Felix Henry (Chatillon Cedex, France), Mohsen Abdoli (Chatillon Cedex, France), Pierrick Philippe (Chatillon Cedex, France) and Gordon Clare (Chatillon Cedex, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for decoding a coded data stream representing an image. The method includes for a current block: reading from the stream a block size threshold value; determining whether the current block size is less than or equal to the threshold value; if so, de...