US Patent Issued to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG on July 21 for "Apparatus and method for encoding a picture regarding a region of interest" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,773, issued on July 21, was assigned to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. (Munich).

"Apparatus and method for encoding a picture regarding a region of interest" was invented by Thomas Richter (Erlangen, Germany) and Siegfried FoBel (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for encoding a sample array which signals a spatially sampled representation of a picture, wherein the apparatus is configured for: spectrally decomposing the sample array to obtain a decomposed representation, the decomposed representation comprising a plurality of coefficients, each of which is attributed to...