US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Zur Forderung Der Angewandten Forschung on June 23 for "Refined block-based predictive coding and decoding of a picture" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,056, issued on June 23, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Zur Forderung Der Angewandten Forschung E.V. (Munich).

"Refined block-based predictive coding and decoding of a picture" was invented by Phan Hoang Tung Nguyen (Berlin), Gerhard Tech (Berlin), Jonathan Pfaff (Berlin), Michael Schafer (Berlin), Jennifer Rasch (Berlin), Tobias Hinz (Berlin), Heiko Schwarz (Berlin), Detlev Marpe (Berlin) and Thomas Wiegand (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for block-based predictive decoding of a picture comprises a combiner configured to combine a residual signal a predetermined block of the picture and a reference signal...