US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung on Feb. 24 for "Encoder, decoder and methods for enhancing a robustness for calculation of cross-component linear model parameters" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,205, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Encoder, decoder and methods for enhancing a robustness for calculation of cross-component linear model parameters" was invented by Christian Helmrich (Berlin), Heiko Schwarz (Berlin), Detlev Marpe (Berlin) and Thomas Wiegand (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decoder for block-based decoding of picture data of a picture is configured to decode a current block of the picture by determining first and second sets of luma in a neighborhood of the current block, the first set of luma samples having smaller luma va...