US Patent Issued to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG on July 1 for "Efficient sub-picture extraction" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,736, issued on July 1, was assigned to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. (Munich).

"Efficient sub-picture extraction" was invented by Robert Philipp Skupin (Berlin), Cornelius Hellge (Berlin), Valeri George (Berlin), Thomas Schierl (Berlin), Yago Sanchez De La Fuente (Berlin), Karsten Suhring (Berlin) and Thomas Wiegand (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sub-picture extraction is rendered less complex by providing each slice with start position information which indicates a starting position from which onwards the picture is, along a coding path, encoded into the respective slice, relative to an ...