US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung on Feb. 24 for "Spatially unequal streaming" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,112, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Spatially unequal streaming" was invented by Robert Skupin (Berlin), Cornelius Hellge (Berlin), Thomas Schierl (Berlin), Yago Sanchez De La Fuente (Berlin), Thomas Wiegand (Berlin) and Dimitri Podborski (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various concepts for media content streaming are described. Some allow for streaming spatial scene content in a spatially unequal manner so that the visible quality for the user is increased, or the processing complexity or used bandwidth at the streaming retrieval site is decr...