US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung on April 15 for "Partitioned intra coding concept" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,960, issued on April 15, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Partitioned intra coding concept" was invented by Santiago De Luxan Hernandez (Berlin), Philipp Merkle (Berlin), Heiko Schwarz (Berlin), Detlev Marpe (Berlin) and Thomas Wiegand (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Block-based coding of a picture is done by providing an intra-prediction coding concept according to which a certain block of the picture is intra-prediction coded using a certain intra-coding mode by partitioning the predetermined block into partitions which are, for reconstruction purposes, sequential...