US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung on June 9 for "Concept for enhancing parallel coding capabilities" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,380, issued on June 9, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Concept for enhancing parallel coding capabilities" was invented by Valeri George (Berlin), Tobia Hinz (Berlin), Jackie Ma (Berlin), Jens Brandenburg (Berlin), Christian Lehmann (Berlin), Adam Wieckowski (Berlin), Heiko Schwarz (Berlin), Detlev Marpe (Berlin), Thomas Wiegand (Berlin) and Thomas Schierl (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video encoder is disclosed that is configured to encode a slice of a current picture into a data stream by partitioning the slice into rows of Coding Tree Units (CTUs), select a ...