US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung on Aug. 11 for "Multi-hypothesis prediction" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,061, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Multi-hypothesis prediction" was invented by Martin Winken (Berlin), Christian Bartnik (Berlin), Philipp Helle (Berlin), Mischa Siekmann (Belin, Germany), Jonathan Pfaff (Berlin), Detlev Marpe (Berlin), Heiko Schwarz (Berlin) and Thomas Wiegand (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video encoder for encoding a video into a data stream using motion compensated prediction for inter predicted blocks, comprising a hypothesis number control, configured to control a number of prediction hypotheses of the inter predicte...