US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung on Feb. 17 for "Video coding with guided separate post-processing steps" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,684, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Video coding with guided separate post-processing steps" was invented by Yago Sanchez De La Fuente (Berlin), Benjamin Bross (Berlin), Robert Skupin (Berlin), Cornelius Hellge (Berlin), Thomas Schierl (Berlin), Thomas Wiegand (Berlin) and Detlev Marpe (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for video decoding receives a video data stream having pictures of a video encoded thereinto. The video data stream comprises a plurality of access units, a plurality of SEI (supplemental enhancement information) mess...