US Patent Issued to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG on Dec. 16 for "Inter-prediction concept using tile-independency constraints" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,053, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. (Munich).

"Inter-prediction concept using tile-independency constraints" was invented by Robert Skupin (Berlin), Yago Sanchez De La Fuente (Berlin), Cornelius Hellge (Berlin), Adam Wieckowski (Berlin), Valeri George (Berlin), Benjamin Bross (Berlin), Thomas Schierl (Berlin), Karsten Suehring (Berlin) and Thomas Wiegand (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Different concepts for improving video coding efficiency are described, many of them allow for video coding in a manner realizing tile-independent coding with reducing, ho...