US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung on March 17 for "Matrix based intra prediction with mode-global settings" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,061, issued on March 17, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Matrix based intra prediction with mode-global settings" was invented by Jonathan Pfaff (Berlin), Tobias Hinz (Berlin), Philipp Helle (Berlin), Philipp Merkle (Berlin), Bjorn Stallenberger (Berlin), Michael Schafer (Berlin), Benjamin Bross (Berlin), Martin Winken (Berlin), Mischa Siekmann (Berlin), Heiko Schwarz (Berlin), Detlev Marpe (Berlin) and Thomas Wiegand (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes at least one processor for decoding a block of a picture using intra-prediction that is conf...