US Patent Issued to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG on Oct. 6 for "Region based intra block copy" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,824, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. (Munich).

"Region based intra block copy" was invented by Gayathri Venugopal (Berlin), Santiago De Luxan Hernandez (Berlin), Karsten Muller (Berlin), Benjamin Bross (Berlin), Heiko Schwarz (Berlin), Detlev Marpe (Berlin) and Thomas Wiegand (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an encoder and a decoder for Region Based Intra Block Copy, the encoder may be configured for block-based encoding a picture into a data stream, and the decoder may be configured for block-based decoding a picture from a data stream. The encoder and de...