Disney+: the dispute with InterDigital shifts to the consumer arena
At its core, the dispute is a classic patent case. InterDigital, an American group with fewer than 500 employees – around half of whom are researchers – develops technologies used in particular in telecommunications and video. Its portfolio comprises some 40,000 patents worldwide. “ We have around a hundred researchers working on video ,” Lionel Oisel, head of InterDigital’s video operations, explains to… ElectronLibre. Part of this work focuses on compression, which is essential for streaming content. “ A two-hour film in 4K originally takes up around 10 terabytes of data. Thanks to compression technologies, we can reduce this to around 10 gigabytes whilst maintaining the quality .” The development of standards InterDigital and the teams from Technicolor Research & Innovation, which it acquired in 2019, have contributed to several…