US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung on July 7 for "Apparatus and method for encoding and decoding a picture using picture boundary handling" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,979, issued on July 7, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Apparatus and method for encoding and decoding a picture using picture boundary handling" was invented by Adam Wieckowski (Berlin), Valeri George (Berlin), Tobias Hinz (Berlin), Heiko Schwarz (Berlin), Detlev Marpe (Berlin), Thomas Wiegand (Berlin), Jackie Ma (Berlin) and Jens Brandenburg (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention concerns an apparatus configured to partition a picture into leaf blocks using recursive multi-tree partitioning, block-based encode the picture into a data stream using th...