US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung on May 12 for "Implementation efficient partition-based intra coding concept" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,837, issued on May 12, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Implementation efficient partition-based intra coding concept" was invented by Santiago De Luxan Hernandez (Berlin), Benjamin Bross (Berlin), Phan Hoang Tung Nguyen (Berlin), Valeri George (Berlin), Heiko Schwarz (Berlin), Detlev Marpe (Berlin) and Thomas Wiegand (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for decoding a block of a picture includes decoding, from a data stream, an intra-coding mode for the block, deriving a predictor for a prediction partition of the block using at least one already reconstructed ...