US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung on Jan. 13 for "Decoder, encoder and methods comprising a coding for intra subpartitions" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,455, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Decoder, encoder and methods comprising a coding for intra subpartitions" was invented by Santiago De Luxan Hernandez (Berlin), Valeri George (Berlin), Gayathri Venugopal (Berlin), Jens Brandenburg (Berlin), Benjamin Bross (Berlin), Heiko Schwarz (Berlin), Detlev Marpe (Berlin) and Thomas Wiegand (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Decoder for decoding a picture, wherein blocks into which the picture is subdivided are assigned to a set of prediction types, which include intra prediction and inter prediction. For...