US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung on March 25 for "Concept for picture/video data streams allowing efficient reducibility or efficient random access" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,035, issued on March 25, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Concept for picture/video data streams allowing efficient reducibility or efficient random access" was invented by Robert Skupin (Berlin), Yago Sanchez De La Fuente (Berlin), Thomas Schierl (Berlin), Cornelius Hellge (Berlin), Karsten Grueneberg (Berlin) and Thomas Wiegand (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video data stream is rendered reducible in a manner so that the reduction leads to a restriction of pictures of the reduced video data stream to merely a predetermined subarea of the pictures of the orig...