US Patent Issued to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG on Dec. 2 for "Video coding in relation to subpictures" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,904, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. (Munich).

"Video coding in relation to subpictures" was invented by Yago Sanchez De La Fuente (Berlin), Karsten Suhring (Berlin), Cornelius Hellge (Berlin), Thomas Schierl (Berlin), Robert Skupin (Berlin) and Thomas Wiegand (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Concepts are described, including encoding, processing and decoding of a data stream having a video encoded thereinto, wherein the video comprises a plurality of pictures, wherein the data stream comprises a plurality of pictures in at least two layers, wherein the pictu...