US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung on June 16 for "Intra-prediction mode concept for block-wise picture coding" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,465, issued on June 16, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Intra-prediction mode concept for block-wise picture coding" was invented by Jonathan Pfaff (Berlin), Philipp Helle (Berlin), Dominique Maniry (Berlin), Thomas Wiegand (Berlin), Wojciech Samek (Berlin), Stephan Kaltenstadler (Berlin), Heiko Schwarz (Berlin), Detlev Marpe (Berlin), Mischa Siekmann (Berlin) and Martin Winken (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with a first aspect, an improved compression efficiency is achieved by letting a block-wise picture codec support a set of intra-prediction mod...